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A loan contract from Tebtynis in the Fayum, dated 9 March AD 100, in which Petosiris son of Psoiphis acknowledges receiving 248 silver drachmas at interest, and apparently some barley, from Harpokration son of Kronion, to be repaid in Epeiph of the same year. If he fails to repay, the lender may take the produce of some property. The whole text was crossed out, probably because the loan was repaid.
"Persian of the descent" is a legal status label in Roman Egypt, not an ethnic one. The clause letting the lender take the produce of property suggests an antichretic arrangement, in which the lender takes the yield of property while the debt is unpaid; the cancellation strokes suggest the debt was settled.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prêt d’argent et d’orge). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Petosiris borrowed 248 drachmae and [�] artabae of barley from Harpocration. The conditions and provisions for the case that the loan should not be repaid are not entirely clear, but they include some kind of antichretic arrangement. In any case the loan was repaid, since it is c…
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