Fragment of a contract from Soknopaiou Nesos TM 26268Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)I

A small fragment of a contract drawn up at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome in the 1st century AD. It preserves parts of the descriptions of several parties, with their ages and identifying scars, and mentions a Stotoetis and the parties making the agreement.

In English machine translation

Physical descriptions with age and scars were the standard way of identifying contracting parties in Roman Egypt. The nature of the agreement itself is lost.

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