Acknowledgement of a loan of wheat with interest TM 16910Hermopolites8. Jan. 217

A loan acknowledgement for wheat from the Hermopolite nome, dated 8 January 217. The borrower promises to repay the grain with interest, clean and sifted by the Athenian measure, delivered at his own cost, with the lender entitled to enforce payment against his property. A scribe, Aurelius Hermeinos, wrote it for the illiterate borrower.

In English machine translation

The catalogue title calls it a receipt for a grain loan, but the surviving text is the borrower's undertaking to repay. The word 'ενγουμεν' is unclear in the edition and left untranslated.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über ein Getreidedarlehen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.