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Loan of wheat and barley to Orsenouphis and Kronion by Didymos TM 11594Tebtynis (Arsinoites)22. Nov. 111

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A loan contract from Tebtynis in 111 AD in which two men, Orsenouphis and Kronion, acting as mutual guarantors, acknowledge receiving 20 artabas of wheat and 20 artabas of barley from Didymos son of Didymos, to be repaid in Pauni of the same year. It includes the borrowers' subscription written by a scribe because they were illiterate, the lender's acknowledgment and the record office registration.

In English machine translation

Year fifteen of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, month of Neos Sebastos 25, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Orsenouphis son of Patynis son of Mesoeris, about 45 years old, with a scar on the right forearm, and Kronion son of Cheos son of Harmiysis, about 50 years old, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, both Persians of the Epigone, each surety for the other for payment, acknowledge to Didymos son of Didymos son of Maron, about 34 years old, with a scar on the right shin, that they have received from Didymos himself a loan of 20 artabas of new, clean, unadulterated wheat and 20 artabas of new, clean, unadulterated barley, all by Didymos' own four-choinix measure; and the acknowledging parties Orsenouphis and Kronion are obliged to repay to Didymos the 20 artabas of wheat and 20 artabas of barley of the loan in the month of Pauni of the current fifteenth year of Traianus Caesar the lord, without any delay or evasion, Didymos having the right of execution against the acknowledging parties, both against one of them and against whichever he chooses, and against all their property. Subscriber: Marepsemis son of Pakebkis, about 53 years old, with a scar on the nose on the left. We, Orsenouphis son of Patynis and Kronion son of Cheos, the two being mutual sureties for payment, acknowledge that we have received from Didymos son of Didymos a loan of 20 artabas of new, clean, unadulterated wheat and 20 artabas of barley by the own four-choinix measure of the same Didymos, which we will also repay in the month of Pauni of the current 15th year, as stated above. Pakebkis son of Psoiphis wrote on their behalf, as they do not know letters. I, Didymos son of Didymos: the agreement has been made with me as stated above. Registered through the record office of the village of Tebtynis.

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation used in contracts, not an ethnic label by this period. Neos Sebastos was an honorific name for the month Hathyr.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prestito ni natura). 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 · 22. Nov. 111 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους πεντεκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ κε, ἐν Τεβτύνει τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογοῦσι Ὀρσενοῦφις Πατύνεως τοῦ Μεσοήρεως ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα πέντε , οὐλὴ πήχει δεξιῶι, καὶ Κρονίων Χεῶτος …