Sale of a Colt(?) Mysthes son of Ptolemaios APIS michigan.apis.2436 (MiU)2436 p.mich.9.552 0163;9;552 p.mich;9;552 12045 12045 P.Mich.inv. 5337 Contract for the sale of a (donkey?) colt by Mysthes son of Ptolemaios(?) to an unknown person, for the sum of 48 drachmai. Location: Ann Arbor Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank Greek 1 papyrus ; 21.2 X 9.2 cm Upper right edge badly mutilated; ink faded in many spots 15 Source of description: Recto

See electronic version of PMich IX, 552

 December 27, 131 A.D. unknown place, province of Egypt Hadrianus, Emperor

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English Greek amphodon Tharapeias (Arsinoiton polis) Draft animals--Egypt. Donkeys--Egypt. Bills of sale--Egypt. Documentary Papyrus
Mysthes, son of Ptolemaios(?), the son of -tarchos(?), from the city, (registered) in the quarter of the Tharapeia, to . . . , greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you the colt(?) that belongs to me, that has not yet shed its first teeth, dark mouse gray, for forty-eight silver drachmai, just as it is, not subject to rejection. And I have received the price, and you have taken possession of the colt, and I shall give the guarantee.;The sixteenth year of the Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus. Hathyr 30.
Husselman EM, PMich IX, 552, 1971 -- Line 3: read Tharapei[as instead of Thrako[n (unpublished note of HCY) P.Mich.:9:552

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