One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 16771
Acknowledgement of a money loan at interest from Theodoros alias Epiphaneios TM 16771unbekanntMay 15, 163 CE
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A handwritten acknowledgement (cheirographon) by a borrower whose name is lost, confirming receipt of a cash loan at interest from Theodoros also called Epiphaneios, to be repaid by the end of the month Pachon. It is dated 15 May AD 163, in the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
In English machine translation
[So-and-so] […] [son of so-and-so] […] [and however] I am styled, to Theodoros [son of so-and-so,] […] also called Epiphaneios, greetings.
[I acknowledge that I have received from you a loan] at interest, at the rate of 4 obols [per mina for each month, from] hand to hand out of the house, of silver, [principal, drachmas] […], total […]6 drachmas in number, which I will also [repay to you by the 30th of the] present month Pachon [without any delay, the right of execution] being against me and against all my [property of every kind, as if] by a court judgment.
Year 3 of Imperator [Caesar Marcus Aurelius] Antoninus Augustus and Imperator [Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus] Augustus, Pachon 20.
[This handwritten contract,] written by me in duplicate, shall be valid [for anyone who presents it, wherever it is presented], and it is clean of [erasures and additions.] […]
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Interest of 4 obols per mina per month equals 8% a year, unusually low against the standard 12%. Much of the formula, including the sum and the borrower's name, is restored or lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for a Money Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.nyu.2.27
ὁ δεῖνα […] τοῦ δεῖνος […] καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω Θεοδώρῳ του δεῖνος, […] τῷ καὶ Ἐπιφανείῳ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ χρῆσιν ἔντοκον τόκων τετρωβολείων τῇ μνᾷ κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου κεφαλαίου δραχμὰς […] , γίνονται δραχμὰς […]…ϛ ἀριθμοῦ, ἃς καὶ ἀποδώσω …