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p.kellis.1.45 386Kellis (Oasis Magna)

Loan of Money via HGV-meta

Loan of a gold solidus repayable in oil. A loan contract from Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis, AD 386, in which Aurelius Kapiton acknowledges receiving one gold solidus from Aurelius Syros and promises to repay it with 5 maria of oil in the 15th indiction. It is in effect a sale of oil paid in advance; the village scribe Andreas wrote it for the illiterate borrower. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Αὐρήλιος Καπίτων Καπίτωνος ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως καταμένων ἐν ἐποικίῳ Θιῳ τοῦ Μωθίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Σύρῳ Ψάιτος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι καὶ δεδανεῖσθαι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς ἰδίαν μου καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χρείαν χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἕν, γίνεται νομισμάτιον α, ἐφʼ ᾧ με παραδώσειν σοι ὑπὲρ τιμῆς αὐτοῦ καιρῷ τῆς …[…]…ους ιε ἰνδικτίονος Ἐπεὶφ νεομηνίᾳ ἐλαίου μάρια πέντε, γίνεται ἐλαίου μάρια ε τῷ Ἱβιτικῷ χοεῖ τῆς πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος χωρὶς ἀντιλογίας. κυρία ἡ ἀσφάλεια ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα ἐφʼ ὑπογραφῆς τοῦ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ὑπογράφοντος καὶ βεβαία καὶ ἔννομος ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ κατακειμένη καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. ὑπατείας τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Ὁνωρίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος καὶ Εὐοδίου λαμπροτάτου. Αὐρήλιος Καπίτων ὁ προκείμενος ἔσχον τὸ χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἐφʼ ᾧ με παραδώσειν[…] σοι ὑπὲρ τιμῆς αὐτοῦ ἐν μηνὶ Παῦνι τῆς ιε ἰνδικτίονος ἐλαίου μάρια πέντε, γίνεται μάρια ε, καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα μὴ εἰδότος Αὐρήλιος Ἀνδρέας κωμογραμματεὺςτῆς Κέλλεως ὁ καὶ τὸ σῶμα γράψας ἀξιωθείς. [v] Αὐρήλιος Καπίτων ὑπὲρ ἐλαίου μαρίων ε

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Aurelius Kapiton son of Kapiton, from the village of Kellis, residing in the hamlet of Thio of the Mothite nome, to Aurelius Syros son of Psais, from the same village of the same nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and borrowed from you for my own personal and pressing need one gold solidus, total 1 solidus, on condition that I shall deliver to you as its price at the season of the […] of the 15th indiction, at the new moon of Epeiph, 5 maria of oil, total 5 maria of oil, by the Ibitic chous measure, of the fifteenth indiction, without dispute. This security, written in a single copy with the subscription of the person signing on my behalf, is valid, guaranteed and lawful as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of our master Honorius the most noble Caesar and of Euodius the most illustrious. I, Aurelius Kapiton, the aforementioned, have received the gold solidus on condition that I shall deliver […] to you as its price in the month of Pauni of the 15th indiction 5 maria of oil, total 5 maria, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Andreas, village scribe of Kellis, who also wrote the body of the text, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters, having been asked. [verso] Aurelius Kapiton, for 5 maria of oil.

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