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A bank record (diagraphe) of a sale in which Hermas son of Dionysios of Bakchias pays Horigenes son of Heras, from the Linen-weavers' quarter of the metropolis, for a wheat-coloured calf. The payment of several hundred silver drachmas was made through a bank at the Agora in the Arsinoite nome during Hadrian's reign.
The exact price is damaged: 'three hundred' is legible but the following tens figure is lost. 'Not to be returned' (anaporriphos) means the buyer accepts the animal as is, without the right to reject it for defects.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf durch Vermittlung einer Bank). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους …[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραϊανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἐπὶφ ε. διὰ τῆς Ἀ……… τοῦ Θεογείτονοςτραπέζης Ἀγορᾶς. Ἑρμᾶς Διονυσίου ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος Ὡριγένει Ἡρᾶτος τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Λεινυφίων τιμὴν μόσχου σιτοχρόου, ὃν καὶ παρείληφεν ὁ Ἑρμᾶς τοῦτον τοιοῦτον ἀναπόρριφον, …
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