Loan(?)
End of a contract of uncertain character, perhaps a loan of grain, or possibly a lease of land with rent in kind
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12140
End of an agreement by Heron, with a cession of 3 arouras TM 12140Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJuly 25, 41 A.D.
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The end of a handwritten agreement in which a man named Heron undertakes to measure out and pay something in full, under a penalty of 500 drachmas, and confirms that a cession of 3 arouras of land made to him remains valid. It was written in the Arsinoite nome, probably at Tebtynis, on 25 July AD 41.
In English machine translation
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[…] half. I will measure out and pay all of it without any addition or quibbling. If I do not act as stated above, I will pay the damages and expenses and as penalty 500 silver drachmas and the same amount to the public treasury, and this handwritten agreement shall be valid nonetheless wherever it is produced. And the cession of 3 arouras which you have made to me, Heron, alone shall remain valid and lawful for me.
Year 1 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month Kaisareios 1.
The beginning is lost, so the nature of the contract is uncertain: it may be a loan of grain or a lease of land with rent paid in kind. A cession (parachoresis) was a transfer of rights over land, usually catoecic land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan). 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.5.331
[… ? lines lost …] [… 6 lines lost …] ἡμίσους · ἅπαντα μετρήσω καὶ διαγράψω ἄνευ πάσης ἐπιθέσεως καὶ εὑρησιλογίας. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ποιῶ καθὼς πρόκιται, ἐκτείσω τὰ βλάβη καὶ δαπανήματα καὶ ἐπίτιμα ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς πεντακοσίας καὶ εἰς τὸ δημόσιον τὰς ἴσας, καὶ μηδὲν ἧσσον ἡ χεὶρ ἥδε κυρί…