Sale [December 30, 129 AD]Petechon, son of PetechonAPIScolumbia.apis.p287(NNC)aaa1211p.col.10.2540094;10;254p.col;10;2542226022260Col.inv. 460bPetechon sells to Herakleia his half share of a female slaveWritten along the fibers; the back is blank16 lines of writing in a practiced but not very professional hand; then 4 more lines in an "alphabetic" handShift from the third person to the second and back to the thirdIn Greek1papyrus fragment ; 6.2 x 9.9 cm129 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from Tadaros in Medinet-el-Fayum through Prof. Kelsey and Dr. Askren in 1927; no. 205 in Bell's inventory
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishIn GreekSale of a slave; woman as property ownerPapyri
[Petechon acknowledges that from now on] . . . Herakleia is to own and be master of her half share of the aforesaid sold female slave, with her descendants and her successors, and to dispose of her [the slave] in whatever way she chooses. The title of the slave being guaranteed, she shall publish it whenever she chooses in accordance with a public document, and I guarantee to you the indicated half share of the aforesaid female slave Berenike, the scribal fees and taxes being at the charge of you, Herakleia. The sale is normative. In the fourteenth year of Imperator Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus, Tybi 4. (second hand) I, Petechon son of Petechon, have sold to Herakleia my half share of the female slave Berenike and I have received the . . .