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Loan of wheat and money repayable in barley from Aurelia Koutina to Aurelia Titoueis TM 10537Karanis (Arsinoites)373 CE

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A loan contract in which Aurelia Titoueis of Karanis acknowledges receiving from Aurelia Koutina of Arsinoe 9 artabas of wheat (including interest) and 3,000 talents of silver representing the value of 6 artabas of barley, all to be repaid in Epeiph. It was written by Aurelius Petros on behalf of the illiterate borrower, on 3 February 373.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelia Titoueis daughter of Hatres, from the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, to Aurelia Koutina from the city of the Arsinoites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and had measured out from you 9 artabas of wheat, with the hemiolia (interest of one half), 9 artabas, and 3,000 talents of silver of the imperial coinage, 3,000 talents, being the price of 6 artabas of barley, 6 artabas, which I shall repay to you, all of it, in the month of Epeiph of the fortunate 2nd indiction, without delay and without any dispute, execution being available to you against me or against all my property of every kind, as you exact it, as if by a court judgment; and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of Domitius Modestus, the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Flavius Arintheus, the most illustrious comes and magister of the infantry forces, Mecheir 9. I, Aurelia Titoueis, the aforesaid, have received the 9 artabas of wheat, 9 artabas, and the 6 artabas of barley, 6 artabas; I shall repay them by the deadline as set out above. I, Aurelius Petros son of Nemesianos, wrote on her behalf because she does not know letters. [verso] Note of hand of Titoueis from the village of Karanis: wheat 9 artabas and barley 6 artabas.

The hemiolia is a 50 percent interest charge included in the stated wheat amount; the money loan was effectively an advance on barley to be repaid in kind.

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 and 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.

Loan 3 February 373 AD

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · Col.inv. 59 · 373 CE · Karanis (Arsinoites)

Loan of wheat and 3.000 talents in Augustan silver coinage made to Tetoueis by Aurelia Koutinon; the money was to be repaid in barley

p.col.7.182

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

[r] Αὐρηλία Τιτούεις Ἁτρῆ ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίᾳ Κουτίνᾳ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναικαὶ μεμετρῆσθαι παρὰ σοῦ σίτου σὺν ἡμιολίᾳ ἀρτάβας ἐννέα, ἀρτάβας θ, καὶ ἀργυρίου σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος τάλαντα τρισχίλια, τάλαντα Γ ὄντα εἰς τιμὴν…