Abstracts of contracts
The text consist of abstracts of contracts, with personal names and expressions referring to contracts.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27731
Abstracts of contracts concerning land and loans TM 27731OxyrhynchusSecond century CE
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A fragmentary list of abstracts of contracts from the Oxyrhynchite nome, 2nd century AD. It names inhabitants of Oxyrhynchus such as Harpokration, Petosorapis and Sinthoonis, and mentions grain land near the village of Kerkemounis, handwritten contracts, a debt secured on a vineyard, and a sum of 3800 drachmas.
In English machine translation
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[…] of Kephal[…] […]
[…]nos from the city of the Oxyrhynchi, to Harpokration […]
[…] son of Harpochras (?), from the same city, […]
[…] his property around the village of Kerkemounis […]
[…] 4 arouras of grain land
[…] of Sarapion son of Apollonios […]
[…]os from the city of the Oxyrhynchi, to Petosorapis […]
[…] Sinthoonis daughter of Petosorapis […]
[…] of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and the associated most great gods […]
[…] Episemos […]
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[…] and a handwritten contract […]
[…] owed, on security of a vineyard estate […]
[…] arouras of grain land […]
[…] And according to another handwritten contract […]
[…] of Diogenes, another […] drachmas […]
[…] of the month Pharmouthi, also called […]
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[…] arouras […] 3800 silver drachmas […]
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A cheirographon is a private handwritten contract, as opposed to a notarial one. The mention of Thoeris, Isis and Sarapis probably belongs to a priestly title or temple reference in one of the abstracts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abstracts of Contracts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.leid.inst.1.43
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