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Dating protocol from the beginning of a document TM 2831Herakleopolis23. Okt. - 21. Nov. 243 v.Chr.

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Only the dating formula survives from the opening of a document, probably a contract, drawn up at Herakleopolis in year 5 of Ptolemy III Euergetes (243 BC). It names the eponymous priest of Alexander and the deified rulers and the basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, the Brother-Sister Gods, year 5, when Aristoboulos son of Diodotos was priest of Alexander and of the Brother-Sister Gods and of the Benefactor Gods, and Iamnea daughter of Hyperbassas was basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month Loios, at Herakleopolis. […]

The full regnal and eponymous dating protocol was typical of Ptolemaic contracts, but the body of the text is lost, so the genre is a guess. The basket-bearer (kanephoros) was an annual priestess of the cult of the deified queen Arsinoe II.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 23. Okt. - 21. Nov. 243 v.Chr. · Herakleopolis

βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Ἀρσινόης θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν ἔτους ε ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ἀριστοβούλου τοῦ Διοδότου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἰαμνέας τῆς Ὑπερβάσσαντος μηνὸς Λωίου ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει. [… ? lines lost …]