Contract
Fragment from a contract: part of date, name of parties; Alexandria is mentioned
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 321191
Fragment of a lease from Tuphis TM 321191Tuphis (Aphroditopolites)[reign of Nero]
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Opening of a lease contract drawn up at Tuphis in the Aphroditopolite nome under Nero, in which a man named Nechthanuphis leases something to another person. Only the dating formula, the names and the physical descriptions of the parties survive; the object of the lease is lost.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Nero Claudius [Caesar Augustus Germanicus] Imperator, a[nd of the other officials] who are in Alexandria, in the month [Panemos 5],
Pachon 5, at Tuphis of the […]
[…] Nechthanuphis […] leased […]
[…] about … years old, of medium height […] on the left […], and a mole on the left eyebrow […]
[…] from the same Tuphis, about 40 (?) years old […] in the middle of the forehead, the existing […]
[… lines lost …]
The dating clause gives both a Macedonian and an Egyptian month (Pachon 5), typical of contracts of this period. The parties are identified by age and distinguishing marks such as moles and scars, as was usual in Egyptian contracts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as A Fragment of a Lease). 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.hoogendijk.21
ἔτους […]…ου Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κοινῶν τῶν ὄντων ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μηνὸς Πανήμου ε Παχὼν ε ἐν Τούφει τοῦ ὑ…[…] […] ἐμίσθωσεν Νεχθάνουφις …[…] […]εως ὡς ἐτῶν … μέσος 1-2…[…] ἀριστερῶι καὶ φακὸς ὀφρύι ἀριστερᾷ […] […] ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς…