Record of a public sale with officials present TM 316735Arsinoites ?, ÄgyptenBetween 250 and 150 B.C.

Fragment of a Ptolemaic record of a public sale, probably of property put up for auction in the presence of a scribe and other customary officials, apparently to a buyer named Petearpochrates. It mentions a payment in drachmas with an exchange charge and years 17 and 18 of a reign. It probably comes from the Arsinoite nome, around 205-204 BC.

In English machine translation

The allage was a surcharge for paying in copper rather than silver, with no exact English equivalent. One record dates the papyrus more broadly to between 250 and 150 BC, and the provenance 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 Public sale). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.