Loan of Wheat
Text recording a short-termed loan of wheat made by Gaius Iulius Apollinarius to the priest Heranoubis son of Demas, who was farming a land acquired by Apollinarius at public auction
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12064
Acknowledgement of a wheat debt by a priest of Anubis at Karanis TM 12064Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 10, 131 A.D.
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A bank-registered document in which Heranoubis, an illiterate priest of Anubis at Karanis, acknowledges owing Gaius Iulius Apollinarius 29 2/3 artabas of wheat from rents on land Apollinarius had bought at public auction. He undertakes to repay in two instalments by the end of Phaophi and Hathyr, or else pay the highest market price.
In English machine translation
Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Phaophi 5, through the bank of Didymos son of Ptolemaios at the Gymnasium Square.
Gaius Iulius Apolinarius to Heranoubis son of Demas son of Abykis, aged about 60, with a scar on the left eyebrow, priest of Anoubis of the village of Karanis, illiterate: that he has received from Gaius, from the rents which he owed for the arouras he was farming, formerly belonging to Ptolemaios and Chairemon, both sons of Sokrates, which Gaius happens to have bought by public auction from the state, 29 2/3 artabas of wheat, which he will repay in two instalments, by the thirtieth of the present month half, and by the thirtieth of the month Hathyr of the present year the rest, by the public measure, without delay. And if he does not repay the grain, he will pay the highest price current at the time.
The text was drawn up at a bank in Arsinoe (Gymnasium Square), which is why one record gives Arsinoiton polis as the place; one record also dates it 10 October. Though described as a loan, the wheat represents unpaid rent converted into a debt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan of Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.9.572
ἔτους ἑκκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Φαῶφι ε διὰ τῆς Διδύμου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τραπέζης Πλατίας Γυμνασίου. Γάιος Ἰούλιος Ἀπολινάριος Ἡρανούβι Δημᾶτος τοῦ Ἀβύκιος ὡς ἐτῶν ξ οὐλὴ ὀφρύϊ ἀριστερᾷ ἱερεῖ Ἀνούβεως κώμης Καρανίδος ἀγραμμάτῳ ἔχειν αὐτὸν παρὰ το…