Sale of a male donkey
Aurelius has sold a male donkey to Paleus, for a sum agreed upon.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28913
Sale of a white male donkey foal to a public donkey-driver TM 28913Apollonopolis, Apollonopolite nome, province of EgyptIVth century A.D.
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Fragmentary contract in which Aurelius Hor[…] of Apollonopolis sells a white male donkey foal, born of his own she-donkey, to Aurelius Palieus, a public donkey-driver from the village of Alabantis in the Hermopolite nome, for 132 drachmas. It dates to the Roman period, probably the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Hor[…], […] his mother being Aurelia, from Apollonos Polis of the Apollonopolite nome, to Aurelius Palieus son of Sois, his mother being Belisis, from the village of Alabantis of the Hermopolite nome, public donkey-driver, greetings. I have sold to you a male donkey foal, white in colour, born to me from the she-donkey that belongs to me, at the price agreed between us of 132 drachmas of Imperial silver coinage, total 132 drachmas.
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One record dates the papyrus to the 4th century AD instead of the 3rd. The place is given as Apollonopolis in the Kynopolite area, though the text itself names the Apollonopolite nome.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of a Male Donkey). 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.oslo.3.134
Αὐρήλιος Ὡρ[…] μητρὸς Αὐρηλίας ἀπʼ Ἀπόλλωνος πόλεως τοῦ Ἀπολλωνοπολείτου Αὐρηλίῳ Παλιεῦτι Σώιτος μητρὸς Βηλίσιος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀλαβαντίδος τοῦ Ἑρμοπολείτου νομοῦ δημοσίῳ ὀνηλάτῃ χαίρειν. πέπρακά σοι πῶλον ὀνικὸν ἄρρενα λευκόχροον γεννηθέντα μοι ὑπὸ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης μοι ὄνου τιμῆς τῆς σ…