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