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Advance sale of 30 artabas of wheat by Epimenes to Timokles TM 2817Herakleopolites (?)285 - 284 v.Chr.
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A double contract recording an advance sale of wheat: Epimenes, an Athenian, has been paid by Timokles, a Chalcidian, for 30 artabas of wheat to be delivered from the next harvest at the village of Peroe, with a penalty of 4 drachmas per artaba if he fails. It dates to the 5th year of Ptolemy I (285-284 BC), probably from the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
In the reign of Ptolemy, in the priesthood of Menelaos son of Lagos, in the 5th year, in the month Dios. Epimenes, Athenian, has sold to Timokles, Chalcidian, 30 artabas of wheat, and Epimenes has received the price from Timokles at the same time as the contract. Epimenes shall deliver the wheat to Timokles from the new crop of the coming year, from the threshing floor, in the month Panemos, wheat clean of all impurities, by the royal chous measure, in the village of Peroe; and if he does not deliver it, Epimenes shall pay Timokles as the price of each artaba 4 drachmas, and Timokles shall have the right of execution upon the property of Epimenes, exacting payment in whatever way he wishes. This contract shall be valid wherever Timokles or another acting on behalf of Timokles produces it, on the same terms.
Witnesses: I[…], Dionysios, Aristomachos, Mel[…], […]nois (?), Stasippos, K[…]. Keeper of the contract: Dionysios son of Herakles.
In the reign of Ptolemy, in the priesthood of Menelaos son of Lagos, in the 5th year, in the month Dios. Epimenes, Athenian, has sold to Timokles, Chalcidian, 30 artabas of wheat, and Epimenes has received the price from Timokles at the same time as the contract. Epimenes shall deliver the wheat to Timokles from the new crop of the coming year, from the threshing floor, in the month Panemos, wheat clean of all impurities, by the royal chous measure, in the village of Peroe; and if he does not deliver it, Epimenes shall pay Timokles as the price of each artaba 4 drachmas, and Timokles shall have the right of execution upon the property of Epimenes, exacting payment in whatever way he wishes. This contract shall be valid wherever Timokles or another acting on behalf of Timokles produces it, on the same terms. Witnesses: […]
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of Dionysios
of Epimenes
of Timokles
The text is written twice, an inner and outer copy, as usual in early Ptolemaic double documents; the verso names are the witnesses' and parties' names on the outside. The priest Menelaos son of Lagos was the eponymous priest of Alexander, brother of Ptolemy I.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.hib.1.84a
[r] βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Μενελάου τοῦ Λάγου τῶι ε ἔτει μηνὸς Δίου. ἀπέδοτο Ἐπιμένης Ἀθηναῖος Τιμοκλεῖ Χαλκιδεῖ πυρῶν ἀρτάβας τρίακοντα , καὶ τὴν τιμὴν ἀπέχει Ἐπιμένης παρὰ Τιμοκλέους ἅμα τῆι συνγραφῆι. ἀποδότω δὲ Ἐπιμένης τὸν σῖτον Τιμοκλεῖ ἐκ νέων τῶν ἐπιόντων ἀφʼ …