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Coptic loan acknowledgement in which a monk of the monastery of Apa Apollo (at Bawit) declares that he owes a man named Papa 2 1/3 gold solidi, borrowed for his needs, and promises to repay them in the first indiction year. It dates to the 7th or 8th century AD and comes from the Hermopolite nome.
The tremissis was a gold coin worth one third of a solidus, hence the total of 2 1/3 solidi. The borrower's name and much of the opening are restored, and the end of the document 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 Contrat de prêt d'argent). 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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