CLAS 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Greek Drachma, Manumission
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Slaves (servi: slave society - at least 20% slaves: italy 30% slaves c. 100 ad, sources of slaves: pows, kidnapped travelers, criminals, exposed children, buying (slave market or private party) and renting (farmers, for crop season. Sales contract for female slave. (shelton # 200) Agathos daemon, the son of dionysius and hermione, who resides in the city of oxyrhynchus, by this document acknowledges to gaius julius germanus, son of gaius julius. Domitianus, that he accepts as valid the handwritten sales contract which they made concerning the female slave. Dioscorous, about twenty-five years old and without scars. Julius germanus took possession of her from agathos. She is nonreturnable, except for epilepsy or external claim. The price was 1200 drachmas of silver which agathos daemon received in full from julius. Germanus when the handwritten sales contract was made out. For this amount julius germanus paid the sales tax on the aforementioned slave.
