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A contract for the advance sale of wine: Kosmas son of Georgios, from the village of Sele in the Arsinoite nome, acknowledges receiving payment from Ioannes, a weaver from Arsinoe, for 80 kouri of must wine. He undertakes to deliver it in Mesore from the coming fourth indiction's vintage, bringing it from the vineyards to the village, and pledges his vineyard land as security.
A tarsikarios was a weaver, probably of fine linen or 'Tarsian' cloth; the kouri (koure) is a local wine measure. The text breaks off at the clause on security and the rest is lost.
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.
† ἔχω ἐγὼ Κοσμᾶς υἱὸς Γεωργίου ἀπὸ χωρίου Σελη τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ σοι Ἰωάννῃ τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ ταρσικαρίῳ υἱῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως καὶ πεπληρῶσθαι τὴν τιμὴν οἴνου μούστου εὐαρέστου τιμίου κοῦρι ὀγδοήκοντα οἴνου τιμίου κοῦρι π ἅπερ σοι ἀποδώσω μηνὶ Μεσορὴ χύματι δικαίῳ σου τὰ κοῦ…
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