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Advance payment for a future delivery of wheat at Theadelphia TM 11891Theadelphia (Arsinoites)8 - 9

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A contract in which Marsisouchos son of Marres and his wife Tephersais acknowledge receiving from Herakleios, in advance, the price of a quantity of wheat, which they undertake to deliver in Theadelphia later in Augustus' 38th year, with penalties for default. A village scribe, Petermouthis, wrote it for them as they were illiterate.

In English machine translation

Year 38 of Caesar, Pauni […] through Hatres […] […] Marsisouchos son of Marres, Persian of the epigone, and his wife Tephersais daughter of […], Persian woman, with me as her guardian, we acknowledge that we have received from Herakleios son of […] from his house the price of 8 artabas of new clean wheat and […] of new clean wheat, which we will repay, I and the aforementioned woman, in the month […] of the current 38th year of Caesar, in Theadelphia, by the just four-choinix running measure of the village. If we do not repay as written, we shall pay all the aforesaid with half again in addition; and for whatever artaba we do not repay, the price of each at the highest rate prevailing at the time in the village. And we are guarantors of each other for the payment, as stated above. Petermouthis son of Nekthnibis wrote on their behalf, having been asked, because they do not know letters.

Many lines are struck through by the scribe, perhaps marking the contract as cancelled once fulfilled. "Persian of the epigone" is a legal-status designation with no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contratto per fornitura di grano con pagamento anticipato). 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 · 8 - 9 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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