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End of a Ptolemaic contract, catalogued as the lease of a kleros (military land allotment), preserving a penalty clause of 4,000 drachmas, the validity clause and a list of six witnesses, mostly soldiers of various ethnic origins. It dates to 203-202 BC and comes from Takona in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
Dekanikos, dimoirites and lochagos are Ptolemaic military ranks, and 'of the Epigone' denotes descendants of soldiers born in Egypt. The text joins another fragment of the same contract (BGU VI 1266).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verpachtung eines Kleros). 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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