One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9897
Advance sale of flax stalks to a tow-worker of Arsinoe TM 9897Severu epoikion (Arsinoites)
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A contract in which Aurelius Papnouthios, with the priest Pousi as guarantor, acknowledges receiving payment in advance from the tow-worker Aurelius Menas of Arsinoe for a quantity of good-quality flax stalks to be delivered in bundles. It was drawn up at the hamlet of Severos in the Arsinoite nome in the month Choiak of the year after the consulship of Orestes and Lampadius (AD 531).
In English machine translation
[recto]
† After the consulship of Flavii Orestes and Lampadius, the most illustrious, Choiak 1[.], […] indiction.
Aurelius Papnouthios son of Gerontios, with his guarantor Pousi, priest, son of K[…], from the hamlet of Severos in the Arsinoite nome, to Aurelius Menas son of Pekysis, tow-worker, from the city of the Arsinoites.
I acknowledge that I have received from you by hand and been paid in full the price of satisfactory flax stalks, bundles […]
[…]
[verso]
Note of hand of Papnouthios son of Gerontios with guarantor Pousi, priest […]
Advance-payment sale: the price is paid now and the goods delivered later; the delivery terms are lost. The consulship of Orestes and Lampadius was AD 530, so the postconsular date falls in AD 531.
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 Flax in Advance). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
cpr.14.5
[r] † μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίων Ὀρέστου καὶ Λαμπαδίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Χοιὰκ ι[…] […]ἰνδικτίονος Αὐρήλιος Παπνούθιος υἱὸς Γεροντίου μετ’ ἐγγυητοῦ Ποῦσι πρεσβυτέρου υἱοῦ Κ…[…]… ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Σευήρου τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ, Αὐρηλίῳ Μηνᾷ υἱῷ Πεκυσίου στιππουργῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλ…