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Account of loans of wheat and olyra at interest TM 1721unbekanntMitte III v.Chr.

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Fragmentary account of grain loans (wheat and olyra) made to various individuals, including a cleruch, a priest's son and a beer-brewer, mostly at the 'one-and-a-half' rate of repayment. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC, in Ptolemaic Egypt.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] of […]os, cleruch […] […] […] to […] son of Chennophris, priest, through Sa[…] […] […] son of […]mouys, on condition that the price […] of the brother […] […] grain at one-and-a-half (interest), of olyra […] Stepseis(?) […] […] to […]son son of Nikadas likewise at one-and-a-half, of olyra 50 [artabas …]; to Lyson […] […] to Styrax son of Apollonios, at an equal rate, of wheat 5 [artabas], at one-and-a-half; to the brother […] […] to the beer-brewer, at one-and-a-half, of wheat 2 [artabas] […]; to Menon […] [verso, column 1] […] […] 30 […] 100 […] 5 […] 100 […] [verso, column 2] at one-and-a-quarter of wheat 5 5 […] 20 20 […] […] […]

Hēmiolion (one-and-a-half) means the loan was repayable with 50% added; epitetartos on the verso means repayment with 25% added. Several quantities are uncertain readings.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.7.2161

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

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