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Loan of 100 drachmas from Nea to the syntagmatarch Echedemos TM 1548Alexandria1. Sept. 252 v.Chr.

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A loan contract from Alexandria, dated 1 September 252 BC, in which a woman named Nea, acting with her guardian Philoxenos, lends 100 silver drachmas to Echedemos, a military officer (syntagmatarch). Repayment is due on demand, with a 50 percent penalty for default, and six witnesses, mostly soldiers registered in streets named after Queen Arsinoe, are listed.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy Soter, year 34, when Neoptolemos son of Kraisis was priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods, and Arsinoe daughter of Nikolaos was basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, on the third day from the end of the month Daisios, in Alexandria. Nea, a Ptolemaian woman (?), with her guardian Philoxenos son of […], a Ptolemaian from Barke, […] the two (?) of the street of Arsinoe Basileia, has lent to Echedemos […] ⟦[…] to the syntag⟧ syntagmatarch of the street of Arsinoe, […] 100 silver drachmas. Echedemos shall repay the loan to Nea within 10 (?) days from whenever she gives notice; if he does not repay ⟦or does not act⟧ according to what is written, he shall pay Nea forthwith one and a half times the amount, and Nea shall have the right of execution for the 100 drachmas under the contract upon Echedemos and upon all his property, as if by a court judgement. This contract shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses: Dinnos, Roman, of the men of Automedon […] of the street of Arsinoe Eleemon; Kallimachos, Ptolemaian from Barke, […] salaried soldier of the street of Arsinoe Basileia; Agesandros son of Hera[…] […] syntagmatarch of the street of Arsinoe Teleia; Antigonos son of Dionysios, of the agema (?) […] […]ros; Dionysios son of Chion, Persian, of the court, salaried soldier […] of the street of […] Chalkioikos; Polemarchos, Ptolemaian from Barke, of the […] salaried soldier of the street of Arsinoe Basileia. [verso] […] of Antigonos of Echedemos, of Agesandros of Kallimachos, of Dionysios

Alexandrian residents were registered by streets (agyiai) named after epithets of Arsinoe II, such as Basileia, Eleemon and Teleia. A syntagmatarch commanded a military unit; the verso names are the witnesses and parties, probably beside their seals.

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. Sept. 252 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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