Receipt for a deposit on the sale of the slave woman Thermoutharion TM 26959ArsinoitesAnfang II

Copy of a private agreement in which Petheus, son of Artemidoros, acknowledges receiving 200 drachmas from Soeris, acting with her husband Horos as guardian, as a non-refundable deposit toward the 700-drachma price of a slave woman named Thermoutharion, about 24 years old. The sale was to be completed by 17 Epeiph; the document comes from the Arsinoite nome in the early 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

"Persian of the epigone" is a legal-status designation, not an ethnic one. The slave could not be returned except for epaphe (probably leprosy or a skin disease) and epilepsy, the standard exceptions in Egyptian slave sales.

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