Fragment of a contract with guarantee and penalty clauses TM 25945Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)I - II

Fragment of a legal agreement from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD. It preserves standard contract clauses on guarantee, a penalty or sum of 500 silver drachmas, a declaration that the agreement is valid and irrevocable, and a renunciation of further claims.

In English machine translation

The word oikonomia here denotes a legal document or transaction rather than household management. The 500 drachmas may be a penalty for breach of contract, but the context is lost.

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.