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Sale of flax stalks with advance payment to a tow-worker of Arsinoe TM 33245Arsinoites, ÄgyptenEnde V - Anfang VI

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Fragments of a contract in which Aurelius Victor son of Mauricius, from the village of Piamouei in the Arsinoite nome, acknowledges receiving from Aurelius Sambas son of Sounnion, a tow-worker of Arsinoe, the advance price of flax stalks, promising delivery in Pauni from the crops of the 13th indiction. It dates to the late 5th or early 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[fragment I] [From the village] of Piamouei in the Arsinoite [nome], to Aurelius Sambas [son of Sounni]on, tow-worker, [from the] city of the Arsinoites, greetings. [I acknowledge] that I have received [from you from hand to hand] and [been paid in full] […] [fragment II] […] nome [to Sa]mbas son of Sounnion […] tow-[worker] [of the] city of the Arsinoites […] I acknowledge [that I] [have received] from you from hand to hand […] […] Nilo[…] […] [fragment III] [recto] […] and I will make repayment of these to you in the hamlet (epoikion) in the month of Pauni from the crops of the thirteenth indiction without delay, [from] all my property, [and having been] asked I agreed. † I, Aurelius Victor son of Mauricius, the aforesaid, have received the price of flax stalks, on the tenth (?), or of 3,400, and I will deliver at the aforewritten […] as stated above. I, Aurelius Kyros son of Paulos, wrote on his behalf, as he is illiterate. [†] Executed through me, Christodoros […] [verso] Flax stalks […] [… 1 line lost …]

This is a sale on delivery: the price was paid in advance and the flax was to be delivered after harvest. The quantity phrase in the subscription ("on the tenth (?), or of 3,400") is obscure in the Greek.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende V - Anfang VI · Arsinoites, Ägypten

[fragment I] ἀπὸ χωρίου Πιαμούει τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Σαμβᾷ υἱῷ Σουννίωνος στιππουργῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι με παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς καὶ πεπληρῶσθαι […] [fragment II] […] νομοῦ Σαμβᾷ υἱῷ Σουννίωνος[…]εστιππα Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλεως …[…] ὁμολογῶ ἐ…