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Advance sale of wine, barley and vegetable seed TM 36183OxyrhynchitesVI - VII

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Fragment of a sale on delivery (advance purchase) in which the seller acknowledges payment in gold for wine, barley and vegetable seed, to be delivered later: the grain and seed in Pauni and the wine at the vintage in Mesore of the sixth indiction. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome and dates to the 6th or 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] [I acknowledge that I have received (?)] for one third [of a solidus of wine] eighty measures of eight sextarii, for a third of a solidus of barley eleven artabas, and for the other third of a solidus of vegetable seed 2 1/2 artabas, total 2 gold solidi, for 80 eight-sextarius measures of wine and 11 artabas of barley and 2 1/2 artabas of vegetable seed. The produce, new, clean and sieved, by your own measure, I will of necessity deliver to you in the month of Pauni of the current year […] of the present sixth indiction, and the wine at the vat, from unadulterated must, we are ready to provide to you at the vintage in the month of Mesore of the same sixth indiction […]

Prices are given in fractions of the gold solidus (nomisma). The text lists three thirds, but the total is restored as 2 solidi, so the figures may not add up as preserved; the opening verb is restored and the sense 'received payment' is assumed from the contract type.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Lieferungskaufes). 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 - VII · Oxyrhynchites

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