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Sale of a full-grown white donkey TM 23918Psintanu (Heliopolites, Ägypten)29. März 139

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A contract of sale in which Tithoes son of Horion, from Psintanu in the Heliopolite nome, sells a full-grown white unbranded male donkey to Sotas son of Stotoetis of the Arsinoite nome for 280 silver drachmas. It is dated 29 March AD 139, in the second year of Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pharmouthi 3. Tithoes son of Horion, grandson of Peteamounis, his mother being Theamois, from Psintanu in the Heliopolite nome, about 25 years old, with a scar on the left shin, acknowledges to Sotas son of Stotoetis, grandson of Satabous, of those from the Island of the Skenepheis in the Arsinoite nome, that he has sold to him from now on a white male donkey, full-grown, unbranded, and Tithoes has received on the spot from Sotas the fixed and agreed price of the donkey, 280 drachmas of silver, total 280 drachmas, from hand to hand in full; and that Sotas has the right to resell it to others and […] to carry out […] [… lines lost …] [verso] Sale of a donkey.

The buyer comes from the Island of the Skenepheis in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), so the sale crossed nome boundaries. The end of the contract is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf eines ausgewachsenen Esels im Heliopolites). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. März 139 · Psintanu (Heliopolites, Ägypten)

[r] ἔτους δευτέρου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς, Φαρμοῦθι τρίτῃ. ὁμολογει Τιθοῆς Ὡρίωνος τοῦ Πετεαμούνιος μητρὸς Θεαμοὼς ἀπὸ Ψιντανου τοῦ Ἡλιοπολίτου νομοῦ ὡς ἐτῶν κε, οὐλὴ ἀντικνημίῳ ἀριστερῷ, Σώτᾳ Στοτουήτιος τοῦ Σαταβοῦτος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς…