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bgu.4.1161 24 - 23 v.Chr.Alexandria

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Loan of silver from Ptolemaios to Hermaphilos and his wife Agathonike. A contract of loan from Alexandria in which Hermaphilos, a 'Persian of the epigone', and his wife Agathonike acknowledge receiving a cash loan of silver drachmas from Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios. They agree to pay monthly interest of nine obols per mina and repay the principal within six months, from the 7th year of Augustus (24-23 BC), under strict penalty clauses. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… 1 line lost …] παρὰ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου[…] καὶ παρὰ Ἑρμαφίλου τοῦ[…]Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ τῆς τούτου γυναικὸς Ἀγαθονίκης τῆς[…] Περσίνης μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρός. συνχωροῦσιν Ἑρμάφιλος καὶ Ἀγαθονίκη ἔχειν παρὰ τοῦ Πτολεμαίου δάνειον διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς[…] τόκων ἐννεοβολῶν τῆς μνᾶς ἑκάστης τοῦ μηνὸς ἑκάστου, ὃ καὶἀποδώσειν ἐν μησὶν ἓξ ἀπὸ[…]τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ζ ἔτους Καίσαρος διδόντες τὸν μὲν τόκον κατὰ μῆνα εὐτάκτως, τὸ δὲ κεφάλαιον ἐν τῷ ἐσχάτῳ μηνὶ ἄνευ πάσης ὑπερθέσεως, ἢ εἶναι αὐτοὺς παραχρῆμα ἀγωγίμους καὶ συνέχεσθαι μέχρι τοῦ ἐκτεῖσαι τὸ μὲν δάνειον σὺν ἡμιολίᾳ, τοὺς δὲ τόκους ἁπλοῦς, τοῦ δὲ ὑπερπεσόντος χρόνου τοὺς κατὰ τὸ διάγραμμα τόκους διδράχμους τῆς πράξεως γινομένης τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ ἔκ τε τῶν ὑποχρέων ὄντωνἀλληλεγγύων εἰς ἔκτισιν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς καὶ ἐξ οὗ ἐὰν αὐτῶν αἱρῆται καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῖς πάντων καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης ἀκύρων οὐσῶν καὶ ὧν ἐὰν ἐπενέγκωσι πίστεων πασῶν σκέπης πάσης. [… 1 line lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] from Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios […] and from Hermaphilos son of […], Persian of the epigone, and his wife Agathonike daughter of […], Persian, with her guardian, her husband. Hermaphilos and Agathonike acknowledge that they have received from Ptolemaios a loan, from hand to hand out of his house, of [...] drachmas of silver, at interest of nine obols per mina each month, which they will also repay within six months from […] of the current 7th year of Caesar, paying the interest monthly and regularly, and the principal in the last month without any delay; otherwise they shall be liable to immediate arrest and be held in custody until they have paid the loan with an addition of one half, and the interest at the simple rate, and for the overdue time the interest according to the ordinance at 2 drachmas; the execution being for Ptolemaios against the debtors, who are mutually guarantors for payment, both against any one of them, whichever he chooses, and against all their property, as if by a legal judgment, all guarantees and every protection they may bring forward being invalid. […]

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