A loan contract drawn up at the village of Sinary in the Oxyrhynchite nome in AD 38, in which Ischyrion son of Dionysios lends 108 silver drachmas to Hermogenes and Hermias, who are jointly liable and must repay by Choiak 30 of the following year. The borrowers sign acknowledgements, and the contract was registered at the village record office.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 2 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 30, in the village of Sinary in the lower toparchy of the Oxyrhynchite nome. Ischyrion son of Dionysios has lent to Hermogenes the younger, son of Hermogenes son of Demetrios, and to Hermias the younger, son of Zenodoros, both Persians of the Epigone, in the street, 108 drachmas of silver of Imperial and Ptolemaic coinage as principal, to which nothing at all has been added. The borrowers shall repay to Ischyrion the 108 drachmas of silver on the 30th of Choiak of the coming third year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. If they do not repay as written, the borrowers shall forfeit to Ischyrion the loan plus one half, and the appropriate interest for the overdue time, being mutual sureties for payment, Ischyrion having the right of execution upon them, upon any one of them he chooses, and upon all their property, as if by legal judgment, without prejudice to whatever else Hermias owes either to Ischyrion or to his wife under another security. The contract is valid.
We, Hermogenes son of Hermogenes and Hermias the younger son of Zenodoros, have borrowed the 108 drachmas of silver as principal and will repay as mutual sureties as stated above. We, Hermias the younger son of Zenodoros and Hermogenes the younger, have borrowed the 108 drachmas of silver as principal and will repay as mutual sureties as stated above, without prejudice to you in any respect regarding whatever else I owe you under another security. I, Ischyrion son of Dionysios, have lent as stated above. Year 2 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 30.
Registered through Achilleus, in charge of the record office of the village of Sinary and other places.
[verso]
Year 2 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 30. 108 drachmas. Of Ischyrion son of Dionysios with Hermogenes and Hermias.
"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation used in loan contracts, not an ethnic identity. The penalty clause is largely restored on the standard formula.
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 Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.