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Loan of the price of vegetable seed repayable in kind TM 18490Hermopolites29. Aug. 221 - 25. Mai 222

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A loan contract in which Aurelius Tyrannos of the hamlet of Terton Psake acknowledges receiving from Aurelius Melas of Hermopolis the price of 1 artaba of vegetable seed, to be repaid in kind in Pauni of the 5th regnal year of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander (AD 222). It comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Tyrannos son of Dioskoros, his mother being Helene, from the hamlet of Terton Psake, aged about 35, with a scar on the tendon of the left foot, to Aurelius Melas son of Theseus, of Hermopolis, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you, from hand to hand out of your house, as an interest-bearing loan, in full, the price agreed between us for 1 artaba of vegetable seed, total 1 artaba of vegetable seed, which I shall also measure out to you in the month of Pauni of the present 5th year of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Alexander, Caesars, the lords, without delay, vegetable seed new, new (sic), clean, unadulterated, free of refuse, sieved, by the measure […] […] price […] at the threshing floors of the same hamlet, you having the right of execution against me and against all my possessions, as if by a court judgment; and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent.

Lachanon here probably means vegetable seed (lachanospermon), likely for oil production; the transaction is a sale with advance payment framed as a loan. The emperors named are Elagabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) and Severus Alexander.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag). 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. 221 - 25. Mai 222 · Hermopolites

Αὐρήλιος Τύραννος Διοσκόρου μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπʼ ἐποικίου Τέρτον Ψακὴ ὡς ἐτῶν λε οὐλὴ νευρώματι ἀριστεροῦ ποδὸς Αὐρηλίῳ Μέλανι Θησέως Ἑρμοπολείτῃ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου χρῆσιν ἔντοκον ἐκ πλήρους τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμπεφωνημένην τιμὴν λαχάνου ἀρτάβης …