One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23603
Bank payment and seller's acknowledgment for the sale of a slave and her daughter TM 23603Hermopolis
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Fragmentary record of a bank payment (diagraphe) for the sale of slaves at Hermopolis. The seller Epimachos son of Zopyros acknowledges receiving 1,100 silver drachmas as the price of his slave Thermoutharion and her daughter Tereus, under a sale registered at the agoranomos office of Hermopolis, in the reign of Caligula.
In English machine translation
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[…] 1,100 drachmas of silver, total 1,100 drachmas.
I, Epimachos son of Zopyros, have followed the foregoing bank payment, and I have received the price of the slave belonging to me named Thermoutharion and of her daughter Tereus, in accordance with the sale registered through the agoranomos office in Hermopolis, 1,100 drachmas of silver, total 1,100 drachmas, as stated above. Year 2 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 7.
A diagraphe was a bank's record of payment; here it is followed by the seller's subscription confirming receipt. The agoranomeion was the public notary office where sales were registered.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat de vente d’esclaves). 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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