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