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Opening of a Greek loan contract dated by the regnal year and eponymous priests of Ptolemy III, written at Oxyrhynchon polis. A woman named Belistiche, a Tyrian acting with a guardian, is the lender; the rest of the text is lost.
Oxyrhynchon polis 'in the Thebaid' here is probably not the famous Oxyrhynchus of the Middle Egypt nome. A kanephoros (basket-bearer) was the annual eponymous priestess 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 (catalogued as Contract of Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Ἀρσινόης θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν ἔτους ὀγδόου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ὀνομάστου τοῦ Πύργωνος Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀρχεστράτης τῆς Κτησικλέους μηνὸς Λώιου […]ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος. ἐδάνεισεν Βελισ…
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