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Loan of money from Hermophilos to Ischyras TM 11893Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A loan contract from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, in which Ischyras son of Ischyrion acknowledges receiving an interest-bearing loan of silver drachmas from Hermophilos son of Hermophilos, to be repaid in Pauni of Domitian's sixth year. The verso carries a docket identifying the loan.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus, month […], at Theadelphia in the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome. Ischyras […] son of Ischyrion son of […], from the quarter of Sekneptyneion […], aged about 26, with a scar on his left foot, acknowledges to Hermophilos son of Hermophilos, aged about […], that he has received from him on the spot, by hand, from his house, an interest-bearing loan of silver, capital […] drachmas, which the acknowledging party will also repay to Hermophilos in the month Pauni of the present sixth year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus, without any delay or evasion. If he does not repay as written, let him pay at once with the addition of half as much again, and interest, Hermophilos having the right of execution upon Ischyras […] and upon all his property, as if by legal judgment. The contract is valid. [verso] Loan of Ischyras from Hermophilos […] of silver […]

The amount of the loan is lost. The penalty 'half as much again' (hemiolia) is the standard 50% surcharge for late repayment.

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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p.mil.2.57

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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