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
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.
p.gen.1.2ed.8
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 …