Fragment of a loan contract from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, in which two men, acting as mutual guarantors, acknowledge borrowing gold solidi from an Aurelius of the same village. It refers to an earlier security concerning animals and is dated by the post-consulship of Orestes and Lampadius (AD 531), Pachon 27, at the start of the tenth indiction.
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After the consulship of Flavii Orestes and Lampadius, the most glorious, Pachon 27, beginning of the tenth indiction.
To Aurelius […] from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome,
the Aurelii […] and […]gios son of Iosephios, both […]
from the same village of Aphrodite, greetings. The security made to you by us for […] animals being valid wherever it is produced […], we further acknowledge now through this our written security, being mutual guarantors and mutually responsible for each other, that we have received and borrowed from you […] of gold, as capital, […] solidi less […] carats, total […] solidi less […] carats by the goldsmiths' standard, which we have received […] and we are ready to provide these to you […]
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The month and consular names are partly restored. Amounts are given in solidi less a number of carats, weighed by the goldsmiths' standard.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.