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Loan of money and wheat from Leonides to Dioskoros and his wife TM 12570Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 17, 118 A.D.

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A contract of loan in which Dioskoros son of Herakleides and his wife Sarapias acknowledge receiving from Leonides son of Herodes 28 silver drachmas at interest and the value of about 1 1/2 artabas of wheat, to be repaid in Pauni. It was drawn up at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome in January 118, and the whole text was later struck through.

In English machine translation

[recto] [Deleted:] In the second year of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, on the twenty-second of the month Dystros, Tybi 22, at Theadelphia in the division of Themistes of the Arsinoite nome. Dioskoros son of Herakleides, Persian of the Epigone, about 49 years old, without distinguishing mark, and his wife Sarapias daughter of Theon, Persian woman, about 45 years old, with a mole on the upper lip on the right and a scar above the ankle of the left foot, with her guardian the aforementioned Dioskoros, the two being mutual sureties for payment, acknowledge to Leonides son of Herodes, about 50 years old, with a scar on the right shin, that they have received from him a loan at interest of 28 silver drachmas and, as the price paid in hand, of 1 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat by the four-choinix dromos measure; the repayment of both of which the acknowledging parties shall make to Leonides in the month Pauni of the present second year […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [Agreement of Dioskoros and his wife] with Leonides son of Herodes: 28 drachmas, 1 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat.

The entire recto text is cancelled by the scribe, probably because the loan was repaid or the draft was abandoned. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status designation with no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Loan

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Oslo inv. 440 · January 17, 118 A.D. · Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

A declaration that Dioskoros and his wife have received a loan from Leonides.

p.oslo.3.131

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17. Jan. 118 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] [… ? lines lost …] [v] ὁμολογία Διοσκόρου καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς πρὸς Λεωνίδην Ἡρώδου δραχμῶν κη πυροῦ ἀρτάβης α 𐅵 ιβ

Loan

Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · 17. Jan. 118 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)