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Loan of 240 drachmas from Aurelius Chairemon to Aurelius Hermeias TM 10262Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)212 - 216

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A loan contract from Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome, in which Aurelius Hermeias, son of Heron, acknowledges receiving 240 silver drachmas from Aurelius Chairemon for one year at one drachma per mina per month. A scribe signs for Hermeias, who is illiterate.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […]icus Maximus […] Pius Augustus, month of Kaisareios, Mesore […], at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Aurelius Hermeias, who before the divine grant was styled Hermeias, […] son of Heron, Hellene, from the quarter […], aged about 22, with scars on the middle of the forehead, acknowledges to Aurelius Chairemon, aged about 30, […] with a scar on the lower lip at the right, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from him a loan of 240 drachmas of silver, total 240 drachmas, for one year from the present month of Mesore, at interest of one drachma per mina for each month, which the acknowledging party shall necessarily repay to him in the month of Thoth of the […] year without delay, the right of execution belonging to him against the acknowledging party and against all his property, as if by legal judgment. I, Aurelius Hermeias, have received the loan from Aurelius Chairemon, the 240 drachmas of silver, which I shall also repay at the term as stated above. I, Hermi[…] […], wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. […] […] […] […] […] […] him the aforesaid […] as stated above.

The 'divine grant' is the Constitutio Antoniniana of AD 212, which gave Roman citizenship and the name Aurelius; this places the text under Caracalla. Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals 12% a year, the standard rate.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan of Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 212 - 216 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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