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Loan of 120 drachmas repaid by the service of the borrowers' son TM 10954Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)26. Mai 158

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A loan contract from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoite nome) dated 26 May 158, registered through a bank near the Hermaion. Demetrios lends 120 silver drachmas to the illiterate couple Tasoucharion and her husband Pathynis, who instead of paying interest place their son Sarapammon in his service.

In English machine translation

Year twenty-one of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pauni 1, through the bank of Isidoros also called […]nikos near the Hermaion. Demetris son of Apollonios (has lent?) to Tasoucharion […], daughter of […]ys son of Paauys, about 35 years old, with a scar on the left calf, with her guardian and guarantor for payment, her husband Pathynis son of Pa[…]s son of […]eus, about 50 years old, with a scar on the right foot, both, as they say, from the village of […]ro, and illiterate, (they acknowledge) that they have received from Demetrios a loan of capital of 120 silver drachmas, and […] In place of the interest on these, and of food and clothing, they will provide their own son Sarapammon, about […] years old, to remain with Demetrios and do what is ordered of him, whether in the house or in the field, not being absent by day nor by night without Demetrios' consent. If he leaves for any reason, they themselves will present another in his place, as mutual guarantors of each other. The 120 silver drachmas of capital of the loan […]

This is a paramone loan, in which the labour of a person remaining with the creditor substitutes for interest. The lender is called Demetris in the opening and Demetrios elsewhere; the end of the text is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mutuo di danaro). 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 · 26. Mai 158 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους πρώτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Παοῖνι α. διὰ τῆς Ἰσιδώρου τοῦ καὶ[…] […]νικου τραπέζης πλησίον τοῦ Ἑρμαίου Δημῆτρις Ἀπολλωνίου Τασουχαρίῳ[…] […]υτος τοῦ Παυαύτος ὡς ἐτῶν λε οὐλὴ γαστροκνημίᾳ ἀριστερᾷ μετὰ κυρίου …