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A sale contract in the form of a letter in which Aurelius Zoilos, a gymnasiarch and town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, sells a black male camel to Aurelius Kopres for 2 talents of silver. The camel is identified by its brand marks, and the seller acknowledges full payment. The end of the document is lost.
"Not subject to return" (anaporriphos) means the buyer could not reject the animal for defects. The brand letters ισι and ζ are given as written; "chelynin" (lip or jaw) is uncertain in meaning.
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 Camel). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος Θέωνος γυμνασίαρχος βουλευτὴς τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω Αὐρηλίῳ Κοπρῇ Παστόιτος μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. πέπρακά σοι κάμηλόν μου ἄρσενα μελανόχροον, ἔχοντα χαρακτῆρα ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ μέρους τοῦ τραχήλου ισι κ…
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