A bank document (diagraphe) recording a loan of 108 silver drachmas from Aphrodisios son of Dioskoros to Sarapion and Ischyrion, who stand as mutual sureties, at 1% monthly interest, repayable in Pauni. It was issued through the bank by the theatre at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in October 158 AD and bears the borrowers' own acknowledgements.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phaophi 19, through the bank of Ma[…]eus near the theatre. Aphrodisios son of Dioskoros to Sarapion son of Demetrios, freedman, his mother being Tamysthas (?) daughter of Diodora, from the Gymnasium quarter, aged about 30, with a scar on the left shin, and to Ischyrion son of Herodes, son of Theogiton, from the Sekneptynion quarter, aged about 25, with a scar on the third finger of the left hand, the two being mutual sureties for payment, that they have received from Aphrodisios a loan of a capital sum of 108 silver drachmas at interest of one drachma per mina per month, which they will repay in the month of Pauni of the current year without delay.
We, Sarapion son of Demetrios and Ischyrion son of Herodes, mutual sureties for payment, have received from Aphrodisios the 108 silver drachmas of the loan capital, which we will repay on mutual security in the month of Pauni of the current year, as stated above. I, Sarapion, wrote most of it. I, Ischyrion son of Herodes, have received jointly and will repay jointly the 108 drachmas as stated above.
[verso]
[…] 108 drachmas
Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals 12% a year, the standard rate. The verso docket is only partly legible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehen (selbständige Bankdiagraphe)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.