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[… ? lines lost …] […]μπ[…] […]συμπεφωνημένην τιμὴν[…] […]ὅ ἐστιν ἀργυρίου σεβαστοῦ[…] […] ὁ πωλῶν ἀπὸ[…] […]διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου[…] […]ἄλλων πράσεων[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29045
Fragment of a sale contract TM 29045Arsinoites oder HerakleopolitesII
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A small fragment of a sale contract recording that the agreed price, in imperial silver coin, was paid by the buyer directly from hand to hand. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] the agreed price […]
[…] that is, of imperial silver […]
[…] the seller from […]
[…] from hand to hand out of the house […]
[…] other sales […]
[…]
"Imperial silver" (argyrion sebaston) is the standard contract term for Roman imperial coinage. "From hand to hand out of the house" is a formula for direct payment without a bank.
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.