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Loan of 112 silver drachmas from Platon to Ptolemaios and Selene TM 18500AlexandriaApril 17th, 13 BC

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A loan agreement submitted to Protarchos, the official in charge of the court at Alexandria, in which the married couple Ptolemaios and Selene acknowledge borrowing 112 drachmas of silver at interest from Platon son of Theodoros. They promise to repay within six months, paying interest monthly, under penalty of arrest and a 50 percent surcharge. Dated 17 April 13 BC at Alexandria.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos from Platon son of Theodoros and from Ptolemaios son of Zenon, Persian of the Epigone, and his wife Selene daughter of Ptolemaios, Persian woman, with her guardian, her husband. Concerning the matters agreed: Ptolemaios and Selene acknowledge that they have received from Platon a loan, from hand to hand out of his house, of 112 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, at interest of 2 drachmas on the 112 drachmas per month, which they will also repay within six months from Pachon of the present 17th year of Caesar, paying the interest monthly and punctually and the principal in the last month without any delay; otherwise they are to be liable to arrest at once and held in custody until they pay the loan with one-half added and the interest simply, and for the time overrun the same rate, execution being available to Platon against the debtors, who are mutual sureties for payment, both against one and against whichever of them he chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment, all guarantees and every protection that they may invoke being invalid. We request (this). Year 17 of Caesar, Pharmouthi 22.

This is a synchoresis, an Alexandrian contract form submitted to the official Protarchos for registration. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status designation with no exact English equivalent.; the papyrus was recovered from mummy cartonnage.

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

Loan contract

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE39454 · April 17th, 13 BC · Alexandria

From cartonnage. Cursive hand, same as BGU IV 1052, similar to BGU IV 1053, BGU IV 1055, BGU IV 1058.

bgu.4.1056

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17. Apr. 13 v.Chr. · Alexandria

Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Πλάτωνος τοῦ Θεοδώρου καὶ παρὰ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ζήνωνος Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ τῆς τούτου γυναικὸς Σελήνης τῆς Πτολεμαίου Περσίνης μετὰ κυρίου αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς περὶ τῶν διεσταμένων συνχωροῦσιν Πτολεμαῖος καὶ Σελήνη ἔχειν παρὰ τοῦ Πλάτωνος δάνειον διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου…