One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 40137

End of a private contract with subscription for an illiterate party TM 40137unbekanntunbekannt

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End of a private contract or similar document, surviving only in its final lines. A man named Senorsenouphis, a sowing official of the city, is named, and Aphrodisios signed for him because he was illiterate.

In English machine translation

[…] Senorsenouphis […] sowing-overseer of the city. Aphrodisios wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters.

The term kataspóreus refers to an official responsible for supervising the sowing of land. The document type is known only from the catalogue classification as a private contract.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatvertrag). 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

[… ? lines lost …] Σενορσενοῦφις[…] κατασπορεὺς πόλεως ἔγραψεν Ἀφροδίσιος ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα