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Copies of contracts registered at the record office of Sesphtha TM 21083Sespha (Oxyrhynchites)

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Copies or abstracts of contracts registered at the record office of Sesphtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome during the month of Pauni in year 10 of Hadrian (AD 125/126). The surviving entries include a loan of silver money to be repaid on the 30th of a month, a receipt involving a stolist (temple vestment-keeper), and a transaction concerning 2 arouras of catoecic land from the kleros of Bakchios.

In English machine translation

Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus […] Copies of the contracts executed at Sesphtha in the month of Pauni […] […] Herakleios son of Sarapion, his mother being Chenamous […] […] of silver of the imperial coinage, 4 (?) […] […] for repayment on the 30th of the current tenth year […] […] neither to bring charges nor to proceed against the […] […] the stolist, son of Psenosiris, his mother being Sina…[…] […] from the same Sesphtha, in the street, that he has received […] [according to a contract] made through the same record office on the 5th of Epeiph […] […] from the kleros of Bakchios of the katoikoi, 2 arouras […] […] of her concerning the aforesaid capital sum […] […]…senes, sheet 52, … […] son of […], his mother being Herakleia, of those from Herakleopolis […] son of Herakleides, his mother being Herakleia, of the same […] […]…os son of Demetrios son of Alexander, from arouras […] […] his mother being Herakleia daughter of Onias. And the established […] […] of Herakleides in full, by hand, from the house […] […] of all things from the former times […] and of anyone who will proceed […] [and none the] less the agreements shall be valid.

A stolist was a priest in charge of dressing the cult statues. The register refers to sheet (kollema) numbers of the office's roll of contracts, and the year and month are partly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Abstracts). 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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p.harr.1.142

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Sespha (Oxyrhynchites)

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