A loan contract from Karanis in which Thasos, with her husband as guardian, acknowledges receiving 100 silver drachmas at interest and 12 1/6 artabas of wheat from Petheus son of Pnepheros, repayable in Pauni. Her fifth share of a house and courtyard is pledged as security and may not be sold or mortgaged until repayment.
In English machine translation
Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, month Sebastos 8, at Karanis in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. Thasos daughter of Petheus son of Pasoknopaios, aged about 50, with a scar on the left hand, with her husband Petesouchos son of Petaus, aged about 60, with a scar on the left eyebrow, as guardian, acknowledges to Petheus son of Pnepheros, aged about 30, with a scar on the left knee, that she has received from him forthwith, from hand to hand out of his house, 100 drachmas of silver as a loan, at interest of one drachma per mina each month, and further 12 1/6 artabas of wheat by the six-choinix measure of the interpreter of Karanis, which the acknowledging party is to repay to Petheus in the month of Pauni of the present sixteenth year of Hadrianus Caesar the lord. If she does not repay, let her pay forthwith with the addition of one half and interest, Petheus having the right of execution upon the acknowledging party and upon all her property, as if by legal judgment. Until she repays, Thasos may not sell, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the fifth share of a house and courtyard belonging to her in the village, whose neighbours are: on the south the house of Mysthes son of Melanion, on the north the house of Bekeno…pso, on the west the entrance and exit, on the east the royal street. Writer of the subscription: Heron son of Satyros.
[Subscription] I, Thasos daughter of Petheus son of Pasoknopaios, with my husband Petesouchos son of Petaus as guardian, acknowledge that I have received from Petheus son of Pnepheros 100 drachmas of silver […] and 12 1/6 artabas of wheat, which I will repay in the month of Pauni of the present year 16, and I keep secure the fifth share of a house and courtyard belonging to me in the same village. Heron son of Satyros wrote for her, as she does not know letters.
[Docket] Registered through the record office at Karanis.
Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals 12% a year, the standard rate. The penalty 'with the addition of one half' (hemiolia) means repayment of 150% of the principal on default.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Δάνειον ἠσφαλισμένον δι᾿ ὑπαλλάγματος). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.