Home › Spine › TM 2798
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2798

Contract of a cleruch for sowing sesame with a royal advance TM 2798Arsinoites19. März - 17. Apr. 223 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 →

A contract in which Ptolemaios, a cavalry cleruch holding 100 arouras, acknowledges to the toparch Petosiris and the royal scribe Horos that he has sown 80 arouras of his allotment near Hiera Nesos with summer sesame and received a state advance of 160 drachmas. He undertakes to deliver the whole sesame crop to the royal storehouse and repay the advance, with Paneuis as guarantor. It was drawn up in the Arsinoite nome in 223 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, the Brother Gods, in the twenty-fourth year, when Archetas son of Iasios was priest of Alexander and of the Brother Gods and the Benefactor Gods, and Timonassa daughter of Zoilos was basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month Dios, at Hiera Nesos of the Savior Gods in the Arsinoite nome. Ptolemaios son of Mnesias, of the troop of Ptolemaios son of Eteoneus of the second hipparchy, holder of 100 arouras, acknowledges to Petosiris son of Searmotes, toparch of the districts assigned to him in the division of Herakleides, and to Horos, royal scribe, that he has sown in his own allotment near Hiera Nesos of the Savior Gods 80 arouras with summer sesame for the twenty-fifth year, and that he has received from the bank in Krokodilopolis a working advance of 2 silver drachmas for each aroura, making 160 drachmas; and that he will deliver all the sesame produced by him to the royal storehouse in the twenty-fifth year and will repay the working advance to the king through the same bank in the twenty-fifth year. If he does not repay, let him pay at once, and let the right of execution belong to them and to anyone else who produces the contract, upon all the property of Ptolemaios and that of the guarantor, as for royal debts. Guarantor for Ptolemaios for the payment of the working advance: Paneuis son of Paitos, […]. This contract shall be valid. Witnesses: Antigenes, Thracian, Hermon, Persian, the two of the troop of Ptolemaios son of Eteoneus; Sostratos, Thracian, Dies […], […]nes, Achaean, the three of the troop of Hippokrates; the five being holders of 100 arouras of the second hipparchy; Polemon son of Menelaos, Macedonian of the Epigone. [verso] (Contract) of Ptolemaios, Petosiris, Antigenes, […] Hermon, Dies Paneuis, Horos, Sostratos, Polemon

The kategron was a working advance paid by the state to cultivators of oil crops, which were a royal monopoly. The verso lists the names of the parties and witnesses, presumably on the outside of the sealed contract.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vertrag eines Sesamöl bauenden Kleruchen mit königlichen Beamten). 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 →

p.hamb.1.24

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. März - 17. Apr. 223 v.Chr. · Arsinoites

[r] βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Ἀρσινόης θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν ἔτους τετάρτοῦκαὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἐπὶ ἱερέως Ἀρχέτου τοῦ Ἰασίου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Τιμωνάσσης τῆς Ζωίλου μηνὸς Δίου ἐν Ἱερᾶι Νήσωι Θεῶν Σωτήρων τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου ν…