A notarial contract drawn up before the deputy of the agoranomos Paniskos, recording an interest-free loan of 46 artabas of wheat and 69 artabas of barley from Horos son of Horos to Horos son of Nechoutes, repayable in Pachon of year 15. It sets penalties for non-payment and gives the lender the right of execution; it dates to 100 BC, probably at Pathyris.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[Year 15, …, at Pathyris, before Hermias, the deputy] of [Paniskos the agoranomos. Horos] son of Horos [lent] to Horos son of Nechoutes, aged about 50, [of medium height, honey-coloured], slightly stooping, partly bald, long-faced, straight-nosed, left ear pierced, 46 artabas of wheat and 69 artabas of barley, the same amounts, without interest, which he shall repay in the month of Pachon of the same year 15; and for each artaba of wheat that he does not repay he shall forfeit 2,400 bronze drachmas, and for barley 1,400, and a seventh part of all the produce. The borrower shall repay this loan to Horos in the month of Pachon of the same year, clean of everything and delivered to his house in the plains at his own expense, by the measure with which he received it. If he does not repay within the fixed time or does not act as written, he shall forfeit immediately in the following month one and a half times the amount or the price current in the market, and Horos shall have the right of execution against the borrower, against each one of them and whichever he chooses, and against all his property, exacting payment as if by a court judgment.
I, Hermias, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it.
[verso]
Horos son of Horos lent to Horos son of Nechoutes.
The agoranomos was the official notary who registered contracts. The 'interest-free' loan likely concealed interest within the stated quantities, a common practice.
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, at the Office of the Agoranomus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.