One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30263

Deed of authorization concerning the sale of a slave TM 30263unbekanntIII - IV

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Fragment of a deed of authorization drawn up by a woman, apparently concerning the sale of a slave. It ends with the standard validity clauses and the subscription of a man from Antinoopolis, son of Serapion, who wrote for her because she was illiterate. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] the one who wrote (?) […] […] sale of the same slave […] sale, drawn up and signed […] and this deed of authorization is valid, […] written in a single copy and clean, under my signature, […] to be produced everywhere as if deposited in a public archive, [and having been asked the formal question] I (a woman) agreed. […] […] […] son of Serapion, citizen of Antinoopolis, [wrote on her behalf], as she does not know letters.

The term apo-systatikon denotes a document appointing a representative (an authorization or power of attorney); the slave sale itself is only mentioned in passing in the damaged text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vollmacht). 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 · III - IV

[…]ω…[…] […]τησα…[…] […]ουπαρ[…] […]εμ…τουμ γραψαντ… […]… τοῦ αὐτοῦ δούλου πρᾶσις […] πρᾶσις συστησαμένη καὶ ὑπογραφεῖσα[…]… τὸ δὲ ἀποσυστατικὸν κύριον […]ἁπλοῦν γραφὲν καὶ καθαρὸν ἐπὶ ὑπογραφῆς μου […]πανταχῇ ἐπιφερόμενον ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ ἀρχείῳ κατακείμενον καὶ ἐπερωτηθεῖσα ὡμολόγ…