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Sale with advance payment of vegetable seed and wine TM 37208HerakleopolisVI

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A contract of sale with advance payment from Herakleopolis, 6th century AD: a man, son of Apa Neilos, acknowledges receiving from Aurelius Phib the price for 3 1/2 artabas of vegetable seed and 240 double jars of new wine, to be delivered from the harvest of the eighth indiction. He guarantees to replace any wine that turns sour before Pharmouthi.

In English machine translation

[…] of the seventh indiction, in Herakleopolis. […]os son of Apa Neilos, mother Apia, from the hamlet […]otion of the Herakleopolite nome, to Aurelius Phib son of Alitios, from the same village, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you and been paid in full the price agreed between us for 3 1/2 artabas of vegetable seed, clean in grain, by just measure, and for 240 double jars of new wine of good quality, each holding 5 sextarii, total 3 1/2 artabas of barley (?) and 240 double jars of wine, which I will deliver to you at the vat without fail in the months of Choiak and Mesore, from the produce and vintage of the fortunate eighth indiction, without delay. I will replace for you any wine you find to have turned to vinegar or sourish wine, in place of good wine, up to the month of Pharmouthi of the same year. The document is valid, and having been asked the formal question, I gave my assent.

The summary line abbreviates the seed as barley (krithe), apparently a scribal slip for the vegetable seed named in the body. Vegetable seed (lachanosperma) was grown chiefly for oil.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf von Gemüsesamen und Wein mit Vorauszahlung des Kaufpreises). 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 · Herakleopolis

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