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Application for examination of a slave girl before her sale at Motis TM 22508Oxyrhynchos281 - 282 (?)

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An application by Aurelia Senosiris of Motis, the seller, and Aurelia Charmis, the buyer, to the officials at Motis who examined slaves offered for sale, asking them to examine a 12-year-old house-born slave girl, Isidora also called Lamprotyche. It was written at Oxyrhynchus around AD 281-282.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Hierax and his colleague, those in charge of the examination (anakrisis) of slaves being sold at Motis, from Aurelia Senosiris daughter of Sarapion son of Horos, from Motis, and Aurelia Charmis, also styled however she is styled. We wish, I, Aurelia Senosiris, to sell the slave belonging to me, Isidora, also called Lamprotyche, being 12 years old as of the present year, house-born of my slave Alexandra as mother, light-skinned, straight-haired; and I, Aurelia Charmis, to buy the same aforementioned slave on the aforementioned terms. Therefore we present her to you, asking that the required examination of her take place in accordance with what has been ordered. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius […] […]

The anakrisis was an official examination of a slave's identity and status required before a sale. The date is uncertain because the emperor's name breaks off after Marcus Aurelius; year 7 would suit Probus.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Anacrisis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.55.3784

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 281 - 282 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Ἱέρακι καὶ τῷ σὺν αὐτῷ τοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς ἀνακρίσεως τῶν πιπρασκομένων ἀνδραπόδων ἐπὶ Μώτεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Σενοσίριος Σαραπίωνος Ὥρου ἀπὸ Μώτεως καὶ Αὐρηλίας Χάρμιτι καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει. βουλόμεθα ἡ μὲν Αὐρηλία Σενοσῖρις ἀποδόσθαι τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν μοι δούλην Ἰσιδώραν ἐπικεκλημένην …