One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27405

Fragment of a sale contract with guarantee clause TM 27405unbekanntII

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A fragment of a contract of sale from Roman Egypt, dated to the 2nd century AD. Only phrases survive: references to the buyers and sellers, a guarantee clause protecting the purchasers and their successors from this day on, the validity of the agreement, and payment of the customary taxes.

In English machine translation

[… 10 lines lost …] […]pamon, buying […] sold, so that […] be […] them and those (acting) through them and […] unharmed (?) from this day […] for every guarantee […] [… 4 lines lost …] [and] the agreement (shall be valid) no less […] […] the appropriate taxes [… 7 lines lost …]

The surviving phrases (guarantee "bebaiosis", the agreement remaining valid, the due taxes) are standard clauses of Greek sale contracts; the object sold is lost. The opening letters "pamon" probably end a personal name.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · II

[… 10 lines lost …] παμων ὠνουμ[…]πεπραμένων ὥστε εἶναι μ[…] αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς παρʼ αὐτῶν καὶ[…]ἄτρωτον ἀπὸ τῆσδε τῆς ἡμέρας[…] πρὸς πᾶσαν βεβαίωσιν εξα…[…] [… 4 lines lost …] καὶ μηδὲν ἧσσον ἡ ὁμολογία[…] ον τὰ καθήκοντα τέλη [… 7 lines lost …]