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Subscriptions to a lease from the Arsinoite nome, dated 8 July AD 34. The lessees Kallikrates and his wife Tasokis acknowledge taking the lease as mutual sureties, a scribe signs for them because they are illiterate, and the lessor Ptolemaios confirms.
Only the closing signatures survive; the terms of the lease itself are lost. "Persian of the Epigone" was a legal status designation, not a real ethnic origin, 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 Lease). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Καλλικράτης Παπέειτος Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ ἡ γυνή μου Τασῶκις Ἁρμιύσιος Περσίνη μετὰ κυρίου ἐμοῦ ἀλλήλων ἔγγυοι εἰς ἔκτισιν μεμισθώμεθα καὶ βεβαιώσομεν καθὼς πρόκειται. ἔγραψεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν Πατυνίων Διοδώρου διὰ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι αὐτοὺς γράμματα. Πτολεμαῖος Ἀπίωνος μεμίσθωκα καθὼς π…
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