One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12541
Loan of barley to Sarapion TM 12541Found at: Karanis326-327 CE
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Fragment of a contract in which a man named Sarapion acknowledges receiving a loan of 18 3/4 artabas of barley in kind and undertakes to repay it in the month of Pauni from the harvest of the 16th indiction. It comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to AD 326-327.
In English machine translation
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[… that he, the acknowledging party,] Sarapion, [has received from him] in kind, [with the hemiolia,] 18 3/4 artabas of [barley], which the acknowledging party will of necessity repay at the appointed term in the month of Pauni from the produce of the 16th indiction
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The hemiolia ("one and a half") is an addition of 50 percent interest customarily built into grain loans; here it is restored. The commodity (barley) and the number eighteen are also editorial restorations.
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 Grain). 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.nyu.1.23
[… 5 lines lost …] ἔχειν παρʼ αὐτοῦ ὁ ὁμολογῶν Σαραπίων ἐν γένει σὺν ἡμιλίᾳ κριθῆς ἀρτάβας δέκα ὀκτὼ ἥμισυ τέταρτον ἅσπερ ἐπάναγκονἀποδώσειν τὸν ὁμολογοῦντα ἐν τῇ προθεσμίᾳ μηνὶ Παῦνι γενήματος ιϛ ἰνδικτίονος [… ? lines lost …]