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Lease (?) from Diodoros to Metrodoros, Kallikrates and Komoapis at Tholthis TM 2680Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)213 - 212 v.Chr.

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Fragments of a double contract, probably a lease, drawn up at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome in year 10 of Ptolemy IV. Diodoros appears as lessor and Metrodoros, Kallikrates and Komoapis as the parties who must pay; penalty clauses for both sides survive.

In English machine translation

[inner text] [Fragments A+B] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, gods Euergetai, year 10, when Pythangelos son of Philokleitos was priest of Alexander and of the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores, and Agathoklea daughter of Diognetos was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month […], at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. [… leased …] [Fragment C] […] And if Metrodoros and Kallikrates and Komoapis do not pay according to what is written, let them pay to Diodoros […] [outer text] [Fragment D] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, gods Euergetai, year 10, when Pythangelos son of Philokleitos was priest of Alexander and of the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores, and Agathoklea daughter of Diognetos was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month […], at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. [… leased …] [Fragment E] […] And if Metrodoros and Kallikrates and Komoapis do not pay according to what is written, let them pay to Diodoros […] [Fragment F] […] And if he does not guarantee according to what is written, let Diodoros pay to Metrodoros and Kallikrates and Komoapis a penalty of […] silver drachmas […] exacting according to the ordinance. This contract shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses.

The document is a double contract with inner and outer copies; its identification as a lease is likely but uncertain. The kanephoros carried the sacred basket in the cult of Queen Arsinoe II and is named in dating formulas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag?). 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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bgu.10.1947

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 213 - 212 v.Chr. · Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)

[int] [FrA+B] Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους δεκάτου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Πυθαγγέλου τοῦ Φιλοκλείτου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Σωτήρων καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν καὶ θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀγαθοκλέας τῆς Διογνήτου μηνὸς[…