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Loan of olyra from the officer Theogonos to Praxo TM 2673Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)215 - 214 v.Chr.

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A loan contract in which Theogonos, an Ainianian officer commanding 500 men, lends 50 artabas of olyra grain to Praxo, a Cyrenaean woman acting with her guardian Menon. She must repay the grain at Tholthis in the month Dystros of year 9 or pay 4 silver drachmas per artaba. Written at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, 215-214 BC.

In English machine translation

[…] Sosibios (?) in the month Xandikos, at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Theogonos, Ainianian, of Philon's troop, pentakosiarch, has lent to Praxo daughter of Proxenos, Cyrenaean, with her guardian Menon son of Kallias, Persian of the epigone, 50 artabas of olyra. Let Praxo repay this grain to Theogonos in the month Dystros of the ninth year, olyra clean and unadulterated, by the just chous-measure with just measuring, and let her deliver it to Tholthis wherever Theogonos directs, at her own expense. If she does not repay as written, let Praxo pay Theogonos as the price of each artaba of olyra 4 drachmas of silver […], and let Theogonos have the right of execution upon Praxo, exacting payment in accordance with the regulation; and let this contract be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses

Olyra is an emmer-type grain; a pentakosiarch was a Ptolemaic military officer over 500 men. The opening with the dating formula and the witness list are 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. · Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)

[… ? lines lost …] […] Σωσιβίου μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ ἐν Θώλθει τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ. ἐδάνεισεν Θεόγονος Αἰνιὰν τῶν Φίλωνος πεντακοσίαρχος Πραξοῖ Προξένου Κυρηναίαι μετὰ κυρίου Μένωνος τοῦ Καλλίου Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὀλύρων ἀρτάβας πεντήκοντα , ἀποδότω Πραξὼ Θεογόνωι τὸν σῖτον τοῦτον ἐ…