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· machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
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⟦In the thirty-third year of the dominion of Caesar, son of the God, on the seventeenth of the month Audnaios, Hathyr seventeenth, at Philadelphia in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. Herakles son of Herakles has lent to Sambathion son of Dionysios, Persian of the epigone, 6 artabas of barley by the sample of Hermophantos, including the added interest of one half, which he has also received from him immediately along with this contract, which is deposited as valid. This loan, the 6 artabas of barley, the borrower shall repay to Herakles or his representatives in the month Pauni of the current thirty-third year of Caesar, paying back new, clean barley by the sample of Hermophantos, by the fourth measure of the merchants, that of Herakles, with measuring and a just leveling rod, delivering it to the granary of […] in the village, he himself paying the rent of the granary. If he does not do as written, the borrower shall forfeit to Herakles immediately for each artaba the price of 3 silver drachmas or the highest price that obtains in the market, the right of execution belonging to Herakles and his representatives upon the borrower and upon all his property, as if by a court judgment. The contract is valid. Witnesses.
Year 33 of Caesar, Hathyr 17, through Ammonios, the official in charge of the record office of Philadelphia.
I, Sambathion son of Dionysios, Persian of the epigone, have from Herakles son of Herakles the loan, the 6 artabas of barley by the sample of Hermophantos including the added interest of one half, by the fourth measure of the merchants of Philadelphia, to be delivered into the granary of […], I paying the rent of the granary, which I will also repay in the month Pauni of the current thirty-third year of Caesar, as written above. Kastor son of Kallistratos […] wrote on his behalf because he says he does not know letters.
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Of Philadelphia
Registered […]⟧
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Receipt of Herakles to Sambathion.