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Loan of olyra from Amyntas to Kallippos at Sephtha TM 2671Sephtha (Oxyrhynchites)215 - 214 v.Chr.

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A Greek contract of loan in which Amyntas son of Menedemos, a Cyrenaean, lends 80 artabas of olyra (a type of wheat) to the soldier Kallippos, to be repaid in the month Peritios with delivery to Sephtha. It was drawn up at Sephtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome in year 8 of Ptolemy IV (215-214 BC), with a penalty clause and a list of witnesses.

In English machine translation

Grain (loan) In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, the Benefactor Gods, year 8, when the priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods and of the Benefactor Gods and of the Father-loving Gods was Ptolemy son of Ptolemy son of Stasikrates, and the basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos was Arsinoe daughter of Sosibios, on the 16th of the month Artemisios, at Sephtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Amyntas son of Menedemos, Cyrenaean of the Epigone, has lent to Kallippos, Cyrenaean, a private soldier of the troop of Philon, 80 artabas of olyra […]. Kallippos shall repay the 80 artabas of olyra to Amyntas in the month Peritios of the eighth year, as grain clean and unadulterated, by the choinix measure […] with fair measurement, and he shall deliver the grain to Sephtha, wherever Amyntas directs, at his own expense. If he does not repay as written, Kallippos shall pay to Amyntas as the price of each artaba of olyra […] drachmas of silver, and Amyntas, or another on his behalf, shall have the right of execution against Kallippos in accordance with the ordinance. This contract shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses: […], Drakon, Thracian, the two private soldiers of the troop of Philon; O[…] son of Asklepiades, Milesian; Bakchios son of Chrysippos, […]; Apollodoros […]; […] son of […], Megarian; Tochlas son of Xenarchos, Kard[…]; the five of the Epigone […]

Olyra is a husked grain, usually identified with emmer. 'Of the Epigone' designates descendants of military settlers; the per-artaba penalty sum 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 Getreidedarlehn). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 215 - 214 v.Chr. · Sephtha (Oxyrhynchites)

σιτικῶν βασιλευόντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ὀγδόου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Στασικράτους Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν καὶ θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀρσινόης τῆς Σωσιβίου μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου …