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Loan of wheat from Namesesis to Patseous TM 122Pathyris (?)

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A notarial contract for an interest-free loan of 12 artabas of wheat made by a woman, Namesesis, to Patseous son of Sales, to be repaid in new wheat on Pachon 1, with a penalty of one and a half times the market price if late. It was drawn up before the agoranomos Heliodoros, probably at Pathyris in Upper Egypt.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 5, Hathyr […], at Pathyris, before Heliodoros the agoranomos. Namesesis daughter of Spemminis, Persian woman, has lent to Patseous son of Sales, Persian of the epigone, 12 artabas of wheat without interest. The borrower shall repay this loan to Namesesis on Pachon 1 of the same year, in new, clean, unadulterated wheat, by the measure by which he also received it, delivered to her house at his own expense. If he does not repay within the fixed time, he shall pay forthwith one and a half times the price prevailing in the market, and Namesesis shall have the right of execution against Patseous and against all his property, as if by legal judgment. I, Heliodoros, have registered it. [verso] Namesesis to Patseous son of Sales, 12 artabas of wheat.

"Persian of the epigone" is a Ptolemaic legal-status designation with no exact English equivalent; the agoranomos was a public notary. Such 'interest-free' loans often concealed interest within the stated amount.

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.

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p.amh.2.47

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Pathyris (?)

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