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Advance payment for vegetable seed to be delivered in Hathyr TM 11248Dionysias (Arsinoites)7. Okt. 141

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A contract in which Stotoetis, a man from Soknopaiou Nesos, acknowledges receiving 432 drachmas in advance from Didymos, agent of Flavia Diokleia, for vegetable seed he must deliver in the month of Hathyr at the price then current. It was drawn up at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome in October 141.

In English machine translation

Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Apellaios 10, Phaophi 10, at Dionysias near the copper mines (?) of the division of Themistes of the Arsinoite nome. Stotoetis the second, son of Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, his mother being Taphiomis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos of the division of Herakleides, Persian of the Epigone, about 30 years old, without distinguishing marks, acknowledges to Flavia Diokleia, through Didymos son of Maron, her agent, about 62 years old, with a scar on the second finger of the right hand, that he, the acknowledging party Stotoetis, has received from Didymos, out of the account of Flavia Diokleia, as capital, 432 silver drachmas as the price of vegetable seed, at the price that will prevail at Dionysias in the month of Hathyr of the present fifth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord. Stotoetis shall deliver the vegetable seed to Didymos or to Flavia Diokleia in the same month of Hathyr of the same present fifth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, without any delay or evasion, the right of execution belonging to Didymos or to Flavia Diokleia both upon Stotoetis and upon all his property, as if by legal judgment. (2nd hand) I, Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, my mother being Taphiomis, acknowledge that I have received from Didymos, out of the account of Flavia Diokleia, 432 silver drachmas as the price of vegetable seed at the price that will prevail, and I will deliver on the first of Hathyr of the present fifth year, as stated above, to Didymos son of Maron, agent of Flavia Diokleia […], and I will deliver as stated above. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phaophi 10. I, […], wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters […] […]

This is a sale with advance payment: the buyer pays now and the seed is delivered later at the price then prevailing. 'Persian of the Epigone' was a hereditary legal status label, not an ethnic one, by this period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat de vente de graines de légumes avec paiement anticipé). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Okt. 141 · Dionysias (Arsinoites)

ἔτους πέμπτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς, μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου ι Φαῶφι ι ἐν Διονυσιάδι τῇ πρὸς τοῖς χαλκωρυχείοις τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Στοτοῆτις δεύτερος Στοτοήτιος τοῦ Στοτοήτιος μητρὸς Ταφιώμιος, ἀπὸ κώμης …