Contract for the sale of a donkey (P.Duk.inv. 10)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Contract for the sale of a donkey, Post-consulate of Timasius and Promotus [390]
Author: Aurelios Mouses (From Egypt), fl. 390.
	Aurelios Achilleus (From Egypt), fl. 390.
Subject: Donkeys --Egypt --Kellis (Extinct city) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Sales --Egypt --Kellis (Extinct city) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Kellis (Extinct city) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Contracts --Egypt --Kellis (Extinct city) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 21 x 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 21.0 x 8.0 cm.
	32 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in two different hands.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 10 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 10.
	Contract for the sale of a donkey from Kellis(?), Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Contract is between Aurelios
	Mouses and Aurelios Achilleus on the one hand and
	Aurelios Panoubas on the other. Contract is for either
	a sale or an exchange of a male for a female donkey.
	The price of the donkey or the difference amounts
	to 8,000 or more myriads of talents. Dated in the
	post-consulate of Timasius and Promotus (390 A.D.).
	The main text and the subscription of Aurelios Mouses
	is written for him by someone else. Aurelios Achilleus
	subscribes himself.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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