One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15623

Loan of wheat from a former magistrate of Tentyra to a villager of Techthy TM 15623Diospolis Parva21. Nov. 346

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A loan contract in which Aurelius Komes of the village of Techthy in the Diospolite nome acknowledges receiving 3 5/6 artabas of wheat from Aurelius Ptolemaios, a former magistrate of Tentyra, promising repayment at the harvest of the 6th indiction. It was written on 21 November 346 at Diospolis Parva.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 4th time and Constans Augustus for the 3rd time, Hathyr 25. Aurelius Komes son of Harmogis, from the village of Techthy in the Diospolite nome, to Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Pachoumios, former magistrate of the city of the Tentyrites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you and have had counted out to me a loan of 3 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat, total 3 1/2 1/3 artabas, which I will repay to you at the time of the harvest of the sowing that will, with good fortune, take place in the 6th indiction, without delay, in grain, by the measure Pha[…], without any dispute, the right of execution being against me and against all my property until repayment […] […]

The name of the measure to be used for repayment is only partly legible. The end of the contract, including any signatures, is lost.

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 Wheat). 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 · 21. Nov. 346 · Diospolis Parva

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου Αὐγούστου τὸ δ καὶ Κώνσταντος Αὐγούστου τὸ γ, Ἁθὺρ κε. Αὐρήλιος Κόμης Ἁρμογῖτος ἀπὸ κώμης Τεχθὺ τοῦ Διοσπολίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολεμαίῳ Παχούμιος ἄρξαντι τῆς Τεντυριτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ καὶ ἠριθμῆσθαι χρῆσιν σίτου ἀ…