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Loan of wheat to Aurelia Tamaleis of Karanis TM 10529Karanis (Arsinoites)325 CE

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A loan contract in which Aurelia Tamaleis of Karanis acknowledges receiving 38 1/2 artabas of wheat, including the customary 50 percent surcharge, from Eutropius son of Archias of Arsinoe through his steward Poeris. She promises to repay in new wheat from the next harvest in the month of Pauni; the document was written for her by Chaereas because she was illiterate.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelia Tamaleis, daughter of Hatres, her mother being Tapais, from the village of Karanis, aged about 30, with a scar on the wrist of the right hand, acknowledges that she has received and had measured out to her from Eutropius son of Archias, of the city of the Arsinoites, through Poeris the steward (pronoetes), 38 1/2 artabas of wheat including the half-share (hemiolia), which she, the acknowledging party herself, shall of necessity repay by the appointed date in the month of Pauni of the current year, by the four-choinix measure, from the produce of the 14th indiction year, by the four-choinix measure, the produce new, clean, unadulterated and satisfactory, without delay; and at the time of demand Eutropius shall have the right of execution against the acknowledging party and against all her property, as if by a court judgment. And having been asked the formal question, she acknowledged. In the consulship of Paulinus and Julianus, viri clarissimi, Thoth 11. I, Aurelia Tamaleis, have received the 38 1/2 artabas of wheat and I will repay them by the appointed date as stated above. I, Chaereas, wrote on her behalf since she is illiterate. [verso] Note of hand of Tamaleis daughter of Hatres for 38 1/2 artabas of wheat.

The 'hemiolia' is a 50 percent addition built into the sum to be repaid, effectively the interest on the loan. The four-choinix measure is a standard grain measure named in the contract.

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 Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Loan 325 AD

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · Col.inv. 315 · 325 CE · Karanis (Arsinoites)

Loan of wheat to Tamaleis by one Eutropius son of Archias through his agent; the loan is to be repaid in produce

p.col.7.176

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Sept. 325 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

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