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Prescript of a document dated by eponymous priests TM 2697Oxyrhynchites (?)216 - 215 v.Chr.

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The dating protocol (prescript) of a Greek legal document from the reign of Ptolemy IV, year 7, naming the eponymous priest of Alexander and the deified Ptolemies and the basket-bearer of Arsinoe. The body of the document, probably a contract, is lost. It likely comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[In the reign of] Ptolemy son of Ptol[emy and Berenike, the Benefactor Gods, in the seventh year], when Agathokles son of [Agathokles] was priest [of Alexander and] [of the Sibling Gods and] of the Benefactor Gods and of the [Father-loving Gods, and Philesous] daughter of Demetrios was [basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month] […]

Only the opening dating formula survives, so the type of document is inferred. The kanephoros (basket-bearer) was an annual eponymous priestess of the cult of Queen 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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.10.1986

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 216 - 215 v.Chr. · Oxyrhynchites (?)

Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ἑβδόμου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ἀγαθοκλέους τοῦ Ἀγαθοκλέους Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν καὶ θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Φιλησοῦς τῆς Δημητρίου μηνὸς