Fragment of a loan contract in which Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, a priest, acknowledges borrowing 400 silver drachmas at 1 drachma per mina per month (12% a year) from another Stotoetis, to be repaid in the coming fourth year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. It was registered at the record office of Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome in AD 162-163.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
[…] the borrower Stotoetis son of Stotoetis to [Stotoetis] […] [in the month] […] of the [coming] fourth year of Antoninus and Verus [the lords Augusti] […]
[…] Stotoetis … that Stotoetis shall have [the right of execution against] Stotoetis son of Stotoetis and against [all his] property […] [as if by] judgment of court. Stotoetis signed on behalf of […]
[Let all] the things written above and agreed be [valid as stated.]
I, Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, priest, [acknowledge that I have received from] Stotoetis the 400 drachmas of [silver capital] […] [at interest of 1 drachma] per mina per month, [which I shall also repay in the month] […] of the coming year [without delay as stated.]
Registered through the record office of Euhemeria.
[verso]
[…]
and his receipt.
The lender's name Stotoetis is largely restored; the edition also shows a scribal slip (Stotoetis repeated in the nominative). The verso mentions 'his receipt', perhaps a note about repayment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein neuer Blick auf SPP XII 78 und das Schicksal der Dorfgrapheia im 2. Jh. n. Chr.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.