Home › Spine › TM 2693
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2693

Dating preamble of a lease contract TM 2693Oxyrhynchites (?)236 - 235 v.Chr.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

The opening dating formula of a lease contract from the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, year 12, naming the eponymous priest of Alexander and the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos. Only the preamble and the first word of the lease survive; it was probably drawn up in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, Gods Adelphoi, year twelve, when Eukles son of Eubatas was priest of Alexander and of the Gods Adelphoi and the Gods Euergetai, and Stratonike daughter of Kallianax was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month P[…], in […] of the Oxyrhynchite nome. […] leased […]

The kanephoros was the annual priestess who carried the sacred basket in the cult of Queen Arsinoe II; eponymous priests' names were used to date documents. Most of the names and the nome are editorial restorations.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aktpräskript). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.10.1982

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 236 - 235 v.Chr. · Oxyrhynchites (?)

Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Ἀρσινόης θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν ἔτους δωδεκάτου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Εὐκλέους τοῦ Εὐβάτα Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Στρατονίκης τῆς Καλλιάνακτος μηνὸς Π[…]ἐν[…] τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ. ἐμίσθωσεν[…]