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Advance sale of 150 measures of wine from the village of Demetriou TM 36773HermopolitesVI

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A contract for an advance sale of wine, in which the seller promises to deliver 150 measures of good new wine at the Mesore vintage of the coming third indiction, with the buyer supplying the jars, and guarantees to replace any wine that spoils before the Thynis festival in Phamenoth. It comes from the Hermopolite nome in the 6th century AD; the verso names someone from the village of Demetriou and has a Coptic note naming Isak.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] one hundred fifty, total 150 (measures) of wine, which I will deliver to you at the time of the vintage in the month of Mesore of the auspicious coming third indiction, in new wine, very fine and pleasing, by the measure of the place […] of Apa Apollos, you providing the new empty jars for them. And if any of this same wine should be found turned to vinegar, or badly made, or smelling, up to the festival of Thynis in the month of Phamenoth of the present third indiction, I am to exchange it for you with good wine without delay, all my property being pledged to you for this debt as if by legal judgment. The document is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. [verso] […] from the village of Demetriou in the Hermopolite nome. Isak, son (?) of […]

The beginning, with the names of the parties and price, is lost. "Koupha" are empty transport jars supplied by the buyer.

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 Wine on Delivery). 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

[r] [… ? lines lost …] … ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα γίνεται οἴνου ρν, ἅπερ σοι ἀποδώσω ἐν καιρῷ τρύγης τῷ Μεσορὴ μηνὶ τῆς εὐτυχοῦς εἰσιούσης τρίτης ἰνδικτίονος ἐν οἴνῳ νέῳ καλλίστῳ καὶ εὐαρέστῳ μέτρῳ τοῦ τόπου[…] Ἄπα Ἀπολλῶτος σοῦ παρέχοντος τὰ κοῦφα αὐτῶν νέα. εἰ δὲ εὑρηθείη ὄξος ἢ ἀποίη…