Loan [April 10, 146 AD]
Loan of 120 drachmas made by Isidoros to Hermas, son of Heron; Isidoros had entrusted his money to the bank of Sarapion of the Stoa of Athena
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Bank loan of 120 drachmas from Isidoros to Hermas TM 10559Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)146 CE
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A bank document recording an interest-bearing loan of 120 silver drachmas made by Isidoros son of Marion to Hermas son of Heron through the bank of Sarapion at the Stoa of Athena. Hermas undertakes to repay in Pauni of the same year and signs a subscription acknowledging the debt. Written at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoite nome) in April 146 AD.
In English machine translation
Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pharmouthi 15, through the bank of Sarapion at the Stoa of Athena: Isidoros son of Marion to Hermas son of Heron, grandson of Hermas, from the quarter of the Other Goose-herds, about 40 years old, with a scar on the middle of the forehead, that he has received from Isidoros a loan at interest of a principal of 120 drachmas of silver, which he will also repay in the month of Pauni of the current year without delay.
(2nd hand) I, Hermas, have borrowed the 120 drachmas, which I will repay in the month of Pauni of the same ninth year, as stated above.
The text is a bank diagraphe, a record of payment drawn up by the bank, rather than a notarial contract. The quarter 'of the Other Goose-herds' (Chenoboskia Hetera) was a district of the Arsinoite metropolis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan through a Bank). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.10.259
ἔτους ἐνάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Φαρμοῦθι ιε, διὰ τῆς Σαραπίωνος τραπέζης στοᾶς Ἀθηνᾶς Ἰσίδωρος Μαρίωνος Ἑρμᾷ Ἥρωνος τοῦ Ἑρμᾶ ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Χηνοβοσκίων ἑτέρων, ὡς ἐτῶν μ οὐλὴ μετώπῳ μέσῳ, ἔχειν αὐτὸν παρὰ τοῦ Ἰσιδώρου χρῆσιν ἔντοκ…