p.muench.3.1.94
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12477
Loan of 560 silver drachmas by Achilleus to Panephremmis TM 12477Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)98 - 102
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Draft or cancelled loan contract from Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome, under Trajan, in which Achilleus son of Akousilaos lends 560 silver drachmas to Panephremmis son of Paous, a 'Persian of the epigone', paid through a local money-changing bank, at 1 drachma per mina monthly interest, repayable in the month Sebastos of the following year.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus
Germanicus, month Daisios 20, Pharmouthi (20), at Ptolemais Euergetis of the Arsinoite nome. Achilleus son of Akousilaos, aged about […], […] with a scar on the right eyebrow, has lent to Panephremmis son of Paous, Persian
of the epigone, aged about forty-two, with a scar on the right eyebrow, of silver
of the coinage of the Augusti, as capital, 560 drachmas,
which he has also received from him by transfer through the money-changing bank here of Ptolemaios son of Chairemon, (in the street of the?) Bithynians,
at interest of 1 drachma per mina each month. This loan, the 560 drachmas
of silver capital, and
the interest, let Panephremmis repay to Achilleus in the month Sebastos of the coming
[…] year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus
[…]
The whole surviving text was struck through by the scribe, so the contract was cancelled or abandoned. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status label used in loan contracts, not a real ethnicity; the interest of 1 drachma per mina monthly equals 12% a year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.