1 ‘The 1st year of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius,
the 4th of the month Caesareus, at Ibion Eikosipentaruron in the division of Polemon
of the Arsinoite nome. Heron son of Heron son of …, aged about 45, having a scar on
the … finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Flacceon son of the elder Dorion, having
a scar on the middle of the forehead, that he, the acknowledging party, has sold to
Flacceon from the present time for ever one mouse-coloured donkey, just as it is,
irrevocably, and that he has received from Flacceon the full price agreed upon, [.]4
drachmae of silver, and that he and his assigns will guarantee (the sale) to Flacceon
and his assigns with every guarantee. If Heron does not guarantee it to them, he shall
pay to Flacceon in 30 days double the price which he has received from him and as
a fine ... dr. of silver, and to the treasury an equal sum ...’
1 ‘The 1st year of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius,
the 4th of the month Caesareus, at Ibion Eikosipentaruron in the division of Polemon
of the Arsinoite nome. Heron son of Heron son of …, aged about 45, having a scar on
the … finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Flacceon son of the elder Dorion, having
a scar on the middle of the forehead, that he, the acknowledging party, has sold to
Flacceon from the present time for ever one mouse-coloured donkey, just as it is,
irrevocably, and that he has received from Flacceon the full price agreed upon, [.]4
drachmae of silver, and that he and his assigns will guarantee (the sale) to Flacceon
and his assigns with every guarantee. If Heron does not guarantee it to them, he shall
pay to Flacceon in 30 days double the price which he has received from him and as
a fine ... dr. of silver, and to the treasury an equal sum ...’