Slave sales contract, Papyrus, Faiyum, Egypt, AD 166

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This is a sale contract between two marines for a seven year old Mesopotamian boy, Abbas (also given the Greek name Eutyches). Quintius Julius Proscus, a trumpeter who probably captured the boy on a campaign, made the sale of Caius Fabullius Macer - a centurions assistant - for 200 denarii (over a third of Macer’s annual salary) Enslaved boys could become a soldier’s groom

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Location: The British Museum, London, UK
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