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Loan of 1 talent 1,500 drachmas at interest TM 16565Oxyrhynchos28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 129

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A loan agreement from Oxyrhynchus in which Agathos Daimon, an Alexandrian citizen, acknowledges receiving 7,500 silver drachmas from Pausanias son of Sarapion at interest of 3 obols per mina monthly, to be repaid by the end of Phaophi in Hadrian's 15th year. The end of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

Agathos Daimon son of Diogenes son of Theon, of the Sosikosmian tribe and the Althaean deme, to Pausanias son of Sarapion son of Sarapion, his mother being Apollonous, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you, from hand to hand out of your house, 7,500 drachmas of silver of the imperial coinage, which are 1 talent and 1,500 drachmas of silver, total 1 talent 1,500 drachmas, of capital, to which nothing at all has been added, at interest of 3 obols per mina each month from the coming month of Hathyr of the present fourteenth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, which I will also repay to you without any delay by the thirtieth of Phaophi of the coming fifteenth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord. If I do not repay as written, I will pay you the aforesaid capital with an additional half […] [… lines lost …]

The tribe and deme names (Sosikosmios, Althaieus) mark the borrower as a citizen of Alexandria. Interest of 3 obols per mina a month equals 6% a year; the penalty clause specifies repayment plus 50% (hemiolia).

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.

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p.oxy.36.2774

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 129 · Oxyrhynchos

Ἀγαθὸς Δαίμων Διογένους τοῦ Θέωνος Σωσικόσμιος ὁ καὶ Ἀλθαιεὺς Παυσανίᾳ Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Σαραπίωνος μητρὸς Ἀπολλωνοῦτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύνχων πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς ἑπτακισχιλίας πεντακοσίας αἵ εἰσιν ἀργυρίου τάλαντον …