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End of a deed of sale from Aphrodito in the 6th century AD, preserving witness statements confirming the sale and the payment of a price of one gold solidus less two carats. The sellers, including a woman acting with her husband Anoubas, acknowledge the sale, and a scribe signs for them because they were illiterate.
The price is given as one solidus 'less 2 carats' (keratia), a common way of expressing slightly underweight gold coin. The object carries ends of deeds on both sides; this is the recto.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment with ends of deeds on recto and verso). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […] μαρτυρῶ τῇ πράσει ἀκούσας παρὰ τῶν θεμένων, μαρτυρῶ δὲ καὶ τῇ καταβολῇ τοῦ χρυσίου τοῦ ἑνὸς νομίσματος τῆς τιμῆς. ☧ ☧ Αὐρήλιος Παῦλος Τριαδέλφου μαρτυρῶ τῇ πράσει ἀκούσας παρὰ τῶν θεμένων, μαρτυρῶ δὲ καὶ τῇ καταβολῇ τοῦ χρυσίου τοῦ ἑνὸς νομίσματος τῆς τιμῆς…
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