One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10081
Beginning of a contract between Ischyras of Karanis and Pnepheros TM 10081Kerkesucha (Arsinoites)
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The opening of a contract drawn up at Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome in year 16 of Domitian, in which Ischyras son of Ischyras from Karanis makes an acknowledgement to a certain Pnepheros. The substance of the agreement is lost.
In English machine translation
In the sixteenth year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, on the twenty-ninth of the month Peritios, Choiak 29, at Kerkesoucha of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Ischyras son of Ischyras, aged about [..]-five years, with a scar […] (?) […], from the village of Karanis, acknowledges to Pnepheros […], aged about […]ty […]
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The date is given in both the Macedonian (Peritios) and Egyptian (Choiak) calendars. The ages are only partly preserved, and the nature of the contract cannot be determined.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Début de contrat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.alex.giss.7
ἔτουςἑκκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μηνὸς Περιτίου ἐνάτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι Χοίαχ κθ ἐν Κερκεσούχοις τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ἰσχυρᾶς Ἰσχυρᾶτος ὡς ἐτῶν[…] κοντα πέντε οὐλὴ[…]…σ…ιῳ […] ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος Πνεφερῶτι […] ὡς ἐτῶ…