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Advance sale of 500 artabas of wheat between two cavalry settlers TM 3080Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites)22. Okt. 209 v.Chr.

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A contract in letter form for advance sale of wheat: Olympos, a Mysian cavalry settler holding 100 arouras, acknowledges receiving 3,000 bronze drachmas from his fellow cavalryman Ptolemaios as the price of 500 artabas of wheat, to be delivered at Kaine by Phaophi 10 of year 14 and loaded onto a boat at his own cost, with a penalty of 150% repayment if he defaults. Written in 209 BC at Oxyrhyncha in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Olympos, Mysian, of the troop of Ptolemaios son of Nautas, of the fifth hipparchy, holder of 100 arouras, to Ptolemaios son of […]s, of the fifth hipparchy, holder of 100 arouras, greeting. I have received from you as the price of 500 artabas of wheat 3,000 drachmas of bronze, which (wheat) I will measure out to you at Kaine, wheat of satisfactory quality, by Phaophi 10 of the 14th year, as the revenues of the 15th year (?), by a just measure, and I will load it onto the boat at my own expense. If I do not do as I have written, I will pay back the price which I have received, immediately, with half again added. […] Farewell. Year 14, Thoth 9. [verso] Of Olympos: 500 artabas of wheat, 3,000 drachmas, by Phaophi 10 of the 14th year. To Ptolemaios

Both parties are cleruchs (military settlers) of the fifth hipparchy holding 100-aroura allotments. The clause referring to the revenues of year 15 is partly restored and its exact sense 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 Lieferungskauf). 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 · 22. Okt. 209 v.Chr. · Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites)

[r] Ὄλυμπος Μυσὸς τῶν Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ναυτᾶ τῆς πέμπτης ἱππαρχίας ἑκατοντάρουρος Πτολεμαίωι[…]ι τῆς πέμπτης ἱππαρχίας ἑκατονταρούρωι χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τιμὴν πυρῶν ἀρταβῶν πεντακοσίων χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς τρισχιλίας , ἃς ἀπομετρήσω σοι ἐν τῆι Καινῆι πυρὸν ἀρεστὸν ἕως Φαῶφι δεκάτης …