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A Greek registration docket added to a demotic contract from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, dated year 16 of Ptolemy III Euergetes I (232 BC). It records that a contract between Sponnesis son of Horos and Phanesis son of Nechthyris, concerning the engagement of a nurse for three years at 250 drachmas, was deposited in the official chest through Antikrates, agent of Harmodios.
"Fallen into the chest" (kibotos) is the standard formula for the registration of demotic contracts with the Greek registry office. One museum record dates the text to 231 BC instead of 232 BC.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Docket of a demotic contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A Greek docket appended to a demotic contract of the 16th year of Euergetes I, concering the engagement of a nurse. The text of the docket is fuller than the usual parallels, and sheds light on the meaning of various phrases it contains.
[r] ἔτους ιϛ Φαμενὼθ κ. πέπτωκεν εἰς κιβωτὸν τὸ συνάλλαγμα ἐν Τεβτύνει τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ διʼ Ἀντικράτους τοῦ παρὰ Ἁρμοδίου τροφοῦ εἰς ἔτη τρία , δραχμῶν σν. ἐποίησεν Σποννῆσις Ὥρου Φανήσει Νεχθύριος. [v] [… 1 line lost …]
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