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Advance-payment contract for delivery of wheat TM 15838Hermopolis29. Aug. 196 - 24. Juni 197

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A contract from Hermopolis in which Ammonion son of Hermeinos acknowledges receiving 248 silver drachmas from Hermammon as advance payment for wheat of the current harvest, to be delivered in Epeiph of year 5 of Septimius Severus (AD 196/197). A second, badly damaged section seems to concern payment arrangements involving rents (ekphoria).

In English machine translation

Ammonion son of Hermeinos, from Hermopolis the Great, to Hermammon from the same city, […] I acknowledge that I have received from you, from hand to hand out of your house, an interest-bearing loan as the price of wheat of the produce of the current year 5, principal and interest, 248 silver drachmas, total of principal and interest 248 drachmas, in return for which I shall measure out to you, or into the public granary, the wheat to be collected at the price prevailing in the month of Epeiph of the current year 5, at the first measuring, which I shall deliver clean in your name, or wherever […] the choice being yours, as stated above. I shall measure the wheat to you in return for the aforesaid entire principal and interest of 248 (?) drachmas in the month of Epeiph of the current year 5 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, and I shall provide it without delay, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property, as if by legal judgment. I, Ammonion son of Hermeinos, have received and will repay and measure out as stated above. […] Zenon son of Agathos […] […] Ammonion son of Hermeinos […] […] all of Hermopolis the Great […] […]lion son of Achilleus […] after the rest […] in the month of Epeiph of the current year 5 […] […] […] the account of rents, which he farms […] […] of the current year 5 […] […] I provided from him for repayment […] [in return for] the […] principal and interest of 248 (?) drachmas […] […] on his behalf or on behalf of […] […] measure out the wheat to be collected of the aforesaid […] […] […] being transported […] […] the account with Herm(ammon) concerning the remaining rents remaining with me […] year 5 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus.

The loan is framed as an interest-bearing loan used as the price of wheat, a form of sale with advance payment. The second part of the text is too damaged for a secure continuous translation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lieferungsvertrag mit Vorausbezahlung). 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 · 29. Aug. 196 - 24. Juni 197 · Hermopolis

Ἀμμωνίων Ἑρμείνου ἀπὸ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως τῆςμεγάλης Ἑρμάμμωνι ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως …… ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου χρῆσιν ἔντοκον εἰς τιμὴν πυροῦ γενήματος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ε ἔτους κεφαλαίου καὶ τόκου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς σμη γίνεται κεφαλαίου καὶ τόκου δραχμὰς σμη, ἀνθʼ ὧν …