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Fragment of a dating protocol from Oxyrhynchus TM 78556Oxyrhynchos7. Dez. 64 - 5. Jan. 63 v.Chr.

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Fragment of the opening dating protocol of a Ptolemaic document, probably a contract, written at Oxyrhynchus in year 18 of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos. Only the regnal formula and place survive.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A, duplicate] [… lines lost …] [Fragment B, duplicate] In the reign of Ptolemy, god Neos Dionysos Philopator Philadelphos, year 18, and the other (formulas) of the common (protocol) as written in Alexandria, in the month Peritios and Choiak […], at Oxyrhynchus city of the Thebaid […] [… lines lost …]

The phrase about the other formulas 'as written in Alexandria' abbreviates the full list of eponymous priests, typical of contract preambles. Oxyrhynchus is here oddly described as 'of the Thebaid'.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ptolemaic Fragments). 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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p.oxy.2.236a_b

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[FrAdupl] [… ? lines lost …] [FrBdupl] βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου θεοῦ Νέου Διονύσου Φιλοπάτορος Φιλαδέλφου ἔτους ὀκτωκαιδεκάτου τὰ δʼ ἄλλα τῶν κοινῶν ὡς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ γράφεται μηνὸς Περειτίου καὶ Χοίακ […] ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος[…]α…εισ…ε…και…[…]κ[…] [… ? lines lost …]