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Loan of wheat from public stock at Theadelphia TM 11505Theadelphia (Arsinoites)15. - 23. Juli 64

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Opening of a contract in which Marres son of Marres, a 'Persian of the Epigone', acknowledges a loan of 9 1/3 artabas of wheat from Ptolemaios son of Didymos, drawn from the public grain stock Ptolemaios administers at Theadelphia. It was drawn up in July of AD 64 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

In the tenth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, in the month Gorpiaios […] and twentieth, Epeiph [2]0(?)+[…], at Theadelphia in the division of Themistes of the Arsinoite nome. Marres son of Marres, Persian of the Epigone, about 45 years old, with a scar on the […] finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Ptolemaios son of […] Didymos, about 28 years old, with a scar on the left forearm, that he has received as a loan from him, out of the public granary stock which he administers at the same Theadelphia, 9 1/3 artabas of wheat, by the public measure and the all-bronze barred measure (?) […] […] […]

'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status designation often used by debtors in loan contracts, not a real ethnicity. The terms of repayment are lost with the end of the text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prêt de blé). 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 · 15. - 23. Juli 64 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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