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The so-called accounting scribes up to now active in the Catalogue should according to the old usage keep track of the agreements, including the names of the nomographoi and the contracting parties and the values of the transactions and the types of contracts and they should deposit them in both libraries. The so-called eikonistai shall, when they check the so-called composite roll for deposition, add a marginal note when something has been expunged or anything else added. And after a copy has been made on a single papyrus roll they will deposit it in both libraries. For I order that what is now observed in the Arsinoite and [...]polite nomes shall happen in the rest of Egypt as well. They shall also add the number of the (pasted) sheets and the names of the contracting parties. (lines 7-15: M. Depauw, ZPE 176 (2011), p. 197).