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A royal oath sworn by […]ron son of Dionysios, a 'Persian of the epigone', by King Ptolemy II, Arsinoe Philadelphos and the Savior Gods, declaring that neither he nor a certain Anositos took 100 artabas of castor seed from Kleitarchos. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, around 250 BC.
The verb read as 'carried off' (sesyrakenai, literally 'dragged away') is restored from a scribal omission, and the regnal year is only partly legible. 'Persian of the epigone' is a Ptolemaic legal-status designation, not necessarily a sign of actual Persian ethnicity.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Königseid, 100 Artaben Rizinussamen betreffend). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου Σωτῆρος ἔτους λ…[…] μηνὸς Φαμενὼθ ϛ. ὀμνύει […]…ρων Διονυσίου Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον καὶ Ἀρσινόην Φιλάδελφον καὶ τοὺς τούτων γονεῖς θεοὺς Σωτῆρας ἦ μὴν μὴ σεσυρακέναι παρὰ Κλειτάρχου μηδὲ Ἀνόσιτος παρευρέσει μηδεμιᾶι τὸν κροτ…
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