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Cancelled acknowledgement of a loan of 176 drachmas at interest TM 12565Theadelphia (Arsinoites)19. Juli 146

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A contract in which Hermas son of Heron acknowledges receiving an interest-bearing loan of 176 silver drachmas from Isidoros son of Marion, to be repaid in Tybi of the following year, with a subscription by the borrower. It was written at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome in AD 146, and the entire text was later crossed out.

In English machine translation

[Whole text crossed out:] Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Epeiph 25, at Theadelphia of the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome. Hermas son of Heron, grandson of Hermas, registered, as he says, in the quarter of the Other Goose-pens, a Persian of the Epigone, aged about 42, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, acknowledges to Isidoros son of Marion that he has received from him a loan at interest of 176 silver drachmas, which the acknowledging party will also repay to Isidoros in the month of Tybi of the coming tenth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, without delay, Isidoros having the right of execution upon the acknowledging party and upon all his property, as if by a court judgment; apart from other sums which Hermas owes to Isidoros according to the written documents of his that he holds. I, Hermas son of Heron, have the 176 drachmas and will repay them as stated above.

The whole document was struck through, probably cancelling it once the loan was repaid. A 'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status designation that by this time had little to do with ethnic origin.

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 Money). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Juli 146 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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