One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31890

Fragment of a sale contract TM 31890Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

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Fragment of a contract of sale from the first half of the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome. Only a few words survive, including the statement that someone has sold something, a party aged about 38, and personal names such as Hatres and Tausion.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] has sold [...] [...] about 38 years old [...] [...] Hatres, mother [...] [...] of the [...], of the one [...] [...] and of the other Tausion [...] [...] Anogiris (?) son of Dios[...] [...]

The object of the sale is lost; the line mentioning two women ("of the one... and of the other Tausion") may refer to the mothers or owners of sold persons or property.

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.

cpr.1.157

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte III · Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites

[… ? lines lost …] […]πεπρακέναι[…] […]ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα ὀκτὼ[…] […]ι Ἁτρῆτα μητρὸς[…] […]ριων τῆς μὲν θ[…] […]της δὲ Ταΰσιον […] […]της Ἀνογίριος Διος[…] [… ? lines lost …]