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Sale of a donkey by a Hermopolite villager to an Oxyrhynchite TM 32549Oxyrhynchosfrühes IV

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A contract in which Aurelius Onnophris, a villager from Seneilaïs in the Hermopolite nome, sells a full-grown mouse-coloured male donkey to Aurelius Apollonios of Oxyrhynchus for 12 talents of silver, acknowledging full payment and guaranteeing the sale. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the early 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Onnophris son of Achilleus, from the village of Seneilaïs in the Great Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Apollonios son of Sarapion, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you in the market of the Oxyrhynchite (nome) a male donkey, mouse-coloured, full-grown, for the price agreed between us of 12 talents of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 12 talents, which I have received from you on the spot in full from hand to hand, and having been asked the formal question about this payment I acknowledged it. You have received this same donkey from me from now on, just as it is, not to be returned and free from claims, and I will guarantee it to you with every guarantee, and anyone who proceeds against you or lays claim to it or to part of it on this account I will of necessity drive off at once at my own expense, just as by legal judgement […] [… ? lines lost …]

The sale was made in the market of the Oxyrhynchite nome. The end of the contract, with any further clauses and subscriptions, is lost.

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 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.

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p.oxy.43.3145

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · frühes IV · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιος Ὀννῶφρις Ἀχιλλέως ἀπὸ κώμης Σενειλάεως τοῦ μεγάλου Ἑρμοπολείτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι σοι ἐπʼ ἀγορᾶς τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου ὄνον ἄρρενον μυόχρωμον τέλειον τιμῆς τῆς συνπεφωνημένης πρὸς ἀ…