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Fragment of a contract for a loan of olyra grain drawn up at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome in year 10 of Ptolemy IV (213-212 BC). Only the dating formula with the eponymous priests, part of the loan clause naming a person of the Epigone, and the start of the repayment clause survive.
Olyra is an ancient husked wheat, usually identified as emmer. 'Of the Epigone' is a legal status designation used for descendants of settlers in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Getreidedarlehen). 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 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[…]ἐν Θώλθει τοῦ Ὀξ…
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