Fragment of a contract
A fragment of a contract containing reference to a priest and priestess.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 893
Fragment of a contract involving Phanesis of Krokodilopolis TM 893Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)February - March, 252 B.C.
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Fragment of a Greek contract from the Zenon archive, dated by the eponymous priest and priestess in year 34 of Ptolemy II (252 BC). Phanesis son of Sentheus of Krokodilopolis appears to contract with a Kaunian in the service of Apollonios; a sum of 250 and a penalty clause survive.
In English machine translation
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy Soter, year 34, when the priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods was Aetos son of Apollonios, and the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos was Demetria daughter of Dionysios, in the month Audnaios […]
[…] Phanesis son of Sentheus, from Krokodilopolis, […]
to [Agreophon (?)] the Kaunian, of the people of Apollonios […]
[…] son of Panarachthis the Memphite […]
[…] two hundred and fifty […]
[…] but if he does not return (?) […]
The name Agreophon and the nature of the 250 (drachmas or artabas) are restored or unknown. The kanephoros is the annual priestess of the deified queen Arsinoe, used with the priest of Alexander to date documents.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a 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.
p.cair.zen.2.59248
βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου Σωτῆρος ἔτους λδ ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ἀέτου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν, κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Δημητρίας τῆς Διονυσίου, μηνὸς Αὐδναίου[…] […]…εν Φανῆσις Σενθέως Κροκοδιλοπολίτης[…] Ἀγρεοφῶντος Καυνίωι τῶν περὶ Ἀπολλώνιον[…] […]Π…