Contract for advance sale of must TM 341826Bawit (Hermopolites) oderVII - VIII

Fragment of a Coptic contract, probably a sale with deferred delivery, in which a person acknowledges owing someone, apparently Apollo, 200 kouri of must, to be delivered in the fourth indiction year. The verso carries a docket naming the document as the security (asphaleia) of a cultivator. It comes from Bawit in the Hermopolite nome and dates to the 7th or 8th century AD.

In English machine translation

A koure (kouri) is a local measure for wine or must; 'asphaleia' is a written security or bond. The place record adds 'or', suggesting an alternative provenance not specified.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat de vent à terme). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.