bgu.10.1983
Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους πρώτου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Νικάνορος τοῦ Βακχίου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀριστομάχης τῆς Πτολεμαίου μηνὸς
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2694
Prescript of a legal document with eponymous priests TM 2694Oxyrhynchites (?)222 - 221 v.Chr.
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Opening dating formula (prescript) of a contract or similar legal document from the first regnal year of Ptolemy IV Philopator, naming the eponymous priest of Alexander and the basket-bearer of Arsinoe. The body of the document is lost; it probably comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, the Benefactor Gods, in the first year, when Nikanor son of Bakchios was priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods and of the Benefactor Gods, and Aristomache daughter of Ptolemaios was basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month […]
Only the dating prescript survives, and most of it is restored from the standard formula; the 'basket-bearer' (kanephoros) was the eponymous priestess of the cult of Arsinoe II.
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.