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Remains of a long papyrus roll from the Arsinoite nome, written in AD 139-140, that served as a register of contracts. The five surviving fragments are said to preserve parts of twenty-one contract excerpts, mostly leases with a few contracts of service. No Greek text is reproduced in this edition, only the fragment labels.
The edition supplied contains only fragment labels, so no text could be translated. One record calls this a list of bank payments (diagraphai), while the physical description calls it a notary's register of contracts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Melderolle von Bankdiagraphai). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Small, gracefully executed uncial script, written along the fibres. Only five fragments remain from what was once a long roll. The preserved text contains parts of twenty-one excerpts of contracts, most being lease contracts, but there are also a few contracts of service.
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