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Opening of a Greek loan contract written at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome in the ninth year of a Ptolemaic king (214-213 BC). Aristolochos son of Stratios, a Thracian of the epigone, lends a sum in bronze coin to a Persian of the epigone whose name is lost; the amount and terms do not survive.
The king, styled son of Ptolemy and Berenike, the Benefactor Gods, is Ptolemy IV Philopator, whose ninth year fits the date. 'Of the epigone' is a status term for descendants of settlers; 'Persian of the epigone' was often a legal label used by borrowers rather than true ethnicity.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gelddarlehen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ἐνάτου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ἀνδρονίκου τοῦ Νικάνορος Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Σωτήρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Πτολεμαίδος τῆς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ἐμπεδίωνος μηνὸς Ὑπερβερεταίου ἐν Θώλθει τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ. ἐδάνεισεν …
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