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Sale of grain-bearing land by Nechoutes to the priest Harsiesis TM 116Pathyris1. Nov. 100 v.Chr.

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A Greek contract registered before the agoranomos at Pathyris recording the sale of grain-bearing dry land by Nechoutes, a Persian of the Epigone, to Harsiesis son of Schotes, priest of Souchos and Aphrodite. The price was paid in bronze talents and drachmas; the date is year 15 of Ptolemy X Alexander and Berenike, 1 November 100 BC.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy surnamed Alexander and Berenike his sister, the Mother-loving Gods, year 15, in the time of the priests and priestesses and the basket-bearer in office, in the month Phaophi 16, at Pathyris, before Hermias the deputy of Paniskos, agoranomos. Nechoutes son of […], Persian of the Epigone, aged about 54, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, straight-nosed, with a scar […] on the left (?), sold the dry grain-bearing land belonging to him, from the […] […] at Temrauthis (?) […], whose neighbours are: on the south, land of Petearomenos (?); on the north […] of Psenechoutes […] son of Petearsemtheus; on the east, a vineyard of the same; on the west, a dyke; or whoever the neighbours may be on all sides. Harsiesis son of Schotes, priest of Souchos and Aphrodite, aged about 45, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, straight-nosed, bought it for […] talents of bronze and 3,800 drachmas. Guarantor and warrantor of all the terms of this sale: Nechoutes the seller, whom Harsiesis the buyer accepted.

"Persian of the Epigone" was a legal-fiscal status category in Ptolemaic Egypt rather than a real ethnic designation. The agoranomos was the public notary who registered such contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 1. Nov. 100 v.Chr. · Pathyris

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