bgu.4.1053

addressee To Protarchos, party 1 from Gaius Iulius Philios, party 2 and from Lykarion the son of Apollonios and from Ptolemaios the son of Ptolemaios, both Persians of the epigone, and from the wife of Lykarion, Erotarion the daughter of Achilles, a Persian, acting with her husband as guardian. declaration about the receipt of the loan Concerning the points at issue, Lykarion and Ptolemaios and Erotarion agree that they have received from Gaius Iulius Philios an interest-free loan, through the money-changing bank of Kastor, 300 Ptolemaic silver drachmas, which loan they also agree to pay back in 10 months starting from the first day of Pachon of the present 17th year of Caesar (Augustus), by giving each day starting from the same first day of the month Pachon one drachma, without skipping a single (day), and they agree to do this without any delay, penalty clause or else, on whatever day they skip they agree that they are immediately liable to seizure and can be held under arrest until they pay, without waiting for the (whole) time apportioned to them, the entire principal or whatever will be owed (at that time) plus 50%, and for the time that goes over (the time allotted to them) they agree to pay the interest of two drachmas (per mina = 100 drachmas per month) in accordance with state regulation, while the right to execute the claim belongs to Gaius Iulius Philios from the three (debtors), who are mutually responsible for payment, and from one of them and from whomever of them he chooses and from all of their belongings as if by virtue of a legal verdict, and also from the woodselling shop belonging to Lykarion which is next to the Syrion in the property of Dorion and until they pay off (the loan) they agree that they will provide it (the woodselling shop) inalienable and not subject to transactions (of any kind), and if it so happens that there is some risk with regard to it (the woodselling shop), they agree that even so the loan is free from every risk and that they will not take recourse to safeguards nor to priestly status (?) nor to a suppliant's petition nor to a decree of benefactions nor to a decree on (forced) labor nor to a place of asylum nor to private help nor to any other kind of protection at all, or let whatever they use be without effect. invalidation of prior loans And Gaius Iulius Philios also agrees that he will render without effect the two loan agreements that the same debtors have made with him through the same tribunal of 120 silver drachmas each, because of the fact that he has been paid in full by them with the 240 silver drachmas in all in person (i.e. not through a bank), and he agrees that he will not proceed against them concerning these but only concerning the 300 drachmas according to the present agreement date Year 17 of Caesar (Augustus), Pharmouthi 7 (April 2,13 BC).