Dating protocol of a contract drawn up before the agoranomos at Krokodilopolis TM 216PathyrisJuli - Aug. 140 v.Chr. (Jahr unsicher)

This is the opening dating protocol of a Ptolemaic contract, listing the eponymous priests of the dynastic cult and the priestesses and basket-bearer of the royal queens. It was drawn up on Pauni 25 at Krokodilopolis before Ptolemaios, the agoranomos (notary) of the Pathyrite nome, around 140 BC.

In English machine translation

Only the eponymous-priest preamble survives; the terms of the contract are lost. The agoranomos was a public notary who registered contracts; Krokodilopolis here is the town in the Pathyrite nome, not the Fayum capital.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protocol of a Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.