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Fragmentary contract with dating formula by eponymous priests TM 27077Dura - Europosspätes II

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Opening of a contract from Dura-Europos, preserving only part of the dating formula, which names the eponymous priests of Zeus, Apollo, the Ancestors and King Seleukos Nikator. The terms of the agreement are entirely lost.

In English machine translation

[…] […] [in] Tratara (?) […] [in the priesthood of] Zeus, [so-and-so son of so-and-so son of so-and-so, of Apollo so-and-so son of so-and-so son of] Heliodoros son of [so-and-so,] of the Ancestors, Timarchos [son of so-and-so son of] […], [and of] King [Seleukos] [Nikator, so-and-so son of so-and-so son of Helio]doros […]

Contracts at Dura were dated by the eponymous priesthoods of the Seleucid dynastic cult, which survived long into the Roman period. The place name in line 2 is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragmentary Contract). 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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p.dura.37

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes II · Dura - Europos

[…]…… […]ἐν τραρητωι …προ[…]ἐπὶ ἱερέων Διὸς μὲν τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ δεῖνος, Ἀπόλλωνος δὲ τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ Ἡλιοδώρου τοῦ δεῖνος, τῶν δὲ προγόνων Τειμάρχου τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ …ον[…]ου, βασιλέως δὲ Σελεύκου Νικάτορος τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ δεῖνος τοῦ Ἡλιοδώρου[…]