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A contract from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, dated 2 March AD 91, in which Panephrimmis son of Panesneus acknowledges receiving from Pekysis the younger an advance price for 7 1/2 artabas of barley, 2/5 artaba of wheat and 100 silver drachmas, to be repaid in Pauni of the same year. The penalty clause and the end of the document are lost.
"Persian of the epigone" is a legal status designation, by this period largely a formal label used for debtors. Such sales with advance payment often functioned as disguised loans.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan and Sale with Advance Payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου ἕκτῃ Φαμενὼθ ϛ ἐν τῇ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσῳ τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ· ὁμολογεῖ Πανεφρίμμις Πανεσνέως Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα ἑνὸς οὐλὴ πήχει δεξιῷ Πεκύσι νεωτέρῳ τοῦ Πεκ…
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