One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121972
Fragment of a loan of money and barley TM 121972From: unknown (Philadelpheia?)III CE (?)
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Fragment of a loan contract in which a woman lends 100 silver drachmas at 1 drachma per mina monthly interest, together with 10 artabas of barley measured by her own granary measure. The borrower is to repay her or her agents in a specified month. It probably dates to the 3rd century AD and may come from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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Interest of 1 drachma per mina (100 drachmas) per month equals the usual 12% yearly rate. The 'eighth measure' (metron ogdoon) of her granary refers to a private measuring standard used for the barley.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a 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.
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