Beginning of a contract involving a villager of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9867Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)216 - 217

Opening of a contract (an acknowledgement, homologia) drawn up at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome in the 25th year of Caracalla, AD 216-217. A party from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, about thirty years old, makes the acknowledgement, but the terms of the agreement are lost.

In English machine translation

Only the dating formula, the place of drafting and part of a party's description survive; the nature of the contract cannot be determined. The reading of 'ἀρι[στ]' as part of a physical description (e.g. a scar on the left) is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.