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Loan of olyra from Theogonos to Praxo at Tholthis TM 2703Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)215 - 214 v.Chr.

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A loan contract in kind drawn up at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome in year 8 of Ptolemy IV: the soldier Theogonos lends 50 artabas of olyra to the Cyrenaean woman Praxo, acting with her guardian Menon, to be repaid the next year, with a penalty of 4 drachmas per artaba for default. The verso has fragmentary scribbles, including repeated beginnings of a dating formula.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, Benefactor Gods, year eight, when Ptolemy son of Ptolemy son of Stasikrates was priest of Alexander and the Sibling Gods and the Benefactor Gods and the Father-loving Gods, and Arsinoe daughter of Sosibios was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month Xandikos, at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Theogonos, Ainianian, of the troops of Philon, commander of five hundred, has lent to Praxo daughter of Proxenos, Cyrenaean woman, with her guardian Menon son of Kallias, Persian of the Epigone, 50 artabas of olyra. Praxo shall repay this grain to Theogonos in the month Dystros of the ninth year, olyra clean and unadulterated, by a just choinix measure with just measuring, and shall deliver it to Tholthis wherever Theogonos directs, at her own expense. If she does not repay according to what is written, Praxo shall pay to Theogonos as the value of each artaba of olyra 4 drachmas, and Theogonos shall have the right of execution […] against Praxo, exacting it according to the ordinance. This contract shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses: […] In the reign of Ptolemy […] [verso] […] greetings […] […] wretched (?) of the […] […] wretched (?) of the […] In the reign of Pto[lemy] […] […] through which of all […] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Pto[lemy] […]

Olyra is a husked grain, probably emmer. The verso appears to be writing practice or drafts, with the word read as 'wretched' (mogeroi) uncertain in context.

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.

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bgu.14.2393

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 215 - 214 v.Chr. · Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)

[r] Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης Θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ὀγδόου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Στασικράτους Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ Θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν καὶ Θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀρσινόης τῆς Σωσιβίου μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ ἐν Θώλ…