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A vine-dresser from the village of Alexandrou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome acknowledges receiving payment in advance from the deacon Panouphios of Arsinoe for 60 diploa of must wine. He promises to deliver the wine in Mesore from his own vat at the harvest of the tenth indiction, with the buyer supplying the empty jars.
A diploun was a double-sized wine jar used as a measure. Advance sales like this were in effect loans repaid in produce.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Wine in Advance). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] […]αφων υἱὸς Παωτᾶ ἀμπελουργὸς ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀλεξάνδρου Νήσου τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ τῷ εὐλαβεστάτῳ Πανουφίῳ διακόνῳ υἱῷ Ἰωάννου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι με παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς καὶ πεπληρῶσθαι τὴν τιμὴν οἴνου μούστου εὐαρέστου διδιπλῶν ἑξήκοντα οἴνου δ…
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