Sale of wine in advance in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 524)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Sale of wine in advance, [between 200 and 211]
Subject: Wine and wine making --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome -
	30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Sales --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Farm tenancy --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640
	A.D.
	Viticulturists --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640
	A.D.
	Vineyards --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30
	B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, twelve partly joining fragments
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 11.3 x 7.4 cm. or smaller.
	53 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto, the subscription
	in a different hand.
 	Upper margin of 1.5 cm. on one fragment; lower margin
	of 1 cm., left margin of 1.5 cm., and right margin
	of 1 cm. on the other fragment.
 	P.Duk.inv. 524 was formerly P.Miss. 91.
	Two papyrus copies of a sale of 151 wine jars of wine
	in advance from the Oxyrhynchites (Oxyrhynchite Nome),
	Egypt. Dated to Phaophi 29 of year 9-20 of Septimius
	Severus, Caracalla and Geta (October 26 or 27, A.D.
	200-211). Delivery takes place in Mesore (late July
	through most of August). The seller, a son of Thaisous,
	is also the lessee of the buyer's vineyard near Senepta(?).
	The buyer is from Oxyrhynchos. Ptolemaios signs for
	the seller.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.  

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