A Ptolemaic double document (inner and outer copy) in which Demetrios of Sinope, a cavalry settler holding 70 arouras, acknowledges that three Arsinoite farmers, Marres, Achoapis and Phanesis, have repaid him a loan of 900 artabas of wheat. It was drawn up at Krokodilopolis in the Arsinoite nome in year 2 of Ptolemy VI Philometor.
In English machine translation
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Kleopatra, gods Epiphaneis, year 2, when Poseidonios son of Poseidonios was priest of Alexander and the Theoi Soteres and the Theoi Adelphoi and the Theoi Euergetai and the Theoi Philopatores and the Theoi Epiphaneis and the Theoi Philometores, when Ep… daughter of A…os was athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, Simariste daughter of Euphranor kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, and Eirene daughter of Ptolemaios priestess of Arsinoe Philopator, in the month of Dios, Pachon, at Krokodilopolis in the Arsinoite nome. Demetrios of Sinope, of the troop of Metrophanes of the hipparchy of the Thessalians and the other Greeks, holder of 70 arouras, acknowledges to Marres son of Pechysis and Achoapis son of Petesouchos and Phanesis son of Phanesis, the three Arsinoite farmers, that he has received from them 900 artabas of wheat, the loan […] the aforementioned […] to him according to a loan contract which […]
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In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Kleopatra, gods Epiphaneis, year 2, when Poseidonios son of Poseidonios was priest of Alexander and the Theoi Soteres and the Theoi Adelphoi and the Theoi Euergetai and the Theoi Philopatores and the Theoi Epiphaneis and the Theoi Philometores, when Epi… daughter of …os was athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, Simariste daughter of Euphranor kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, and Eirene daughter of Ptolemaios priestess of Arsinoe Philopator, on the 29th of the month Dios, Pachon 2[…], at Krokodilopolis in the Arsinoite nome. Demetrios of Sinope, of the troop of Metrophanes of the hipparchy of the Thessalians and the other Greeks, holder of 70 arouras, acknowledges to Marres son of Pechysis and Achoapis son of Petesouchos and Phanesis son of Phanesis, the three Arsinoite farmers, that he has received from them 900 artabas of wheat, the loan […] of the loan which […]
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The text was written at Krokodilopolis though the records give Soknopaiou Nesos as provenance. The holder of 70 arouras (hebdomekontarouros) was a military settler with a land allotment of that size.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Repayment of a Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.