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Advance sale of wine to the archimandrite of the monastery of Apa Apollos TM 35875HermopolitesVI

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A contract for the advance sale of wine: the seller acknowledges receiving payment from Apa Serenos, archimandrite of the monastery of Apa Apollos near the village of Titkois, for 450 knidia of new wine to be delivered at the Mesore vintage of a fifteenth indiction. The buyer supplies the jars, and a clause covers wine that turns sour. It dates from the 6th century AD in the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] […] of the Hermopolite [nome, to the] most holy father Apa Serenos, archimandrite of the holy monastery of Apa Apollos in the parish of the village of Titkois of the same nome, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received and been paid in full by your piety the complete and fair price, agreed between us, of wine, new must, 450 knidia, total 450 knidia of wine, which I will deliver to you at the time of the vintage in the month of Mesore of the produce of the fortunate fifteenth indiction, in new wine of the finest quality and to your satisfaction, by the measure of 3 xestai for each knidion, you supplying the new empty jars for them. But if any of the same wine should be found to be either vinegar or smelling sour or unmade, until Phamenoth […] of the same indiction […] […]

The seller's name is lost at the beginning. A knidion is a wine jar, here of 3 xestai; the ending of the guarantee clause on spoiled wine 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 Verkauf von Wein gegen Vorauszahlung). 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 · VI · Hermopolites

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