Payment of an eranos-loan
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. Small hand, at times difficult to read; the lower part of the text is badly preserved. At the foot of the page and on the verso other documents, very unclear, by the same hand.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18578
Agreement on repayment of an eranos loan in monthly installments TM 18578AlexandriaMarch 10th, 10 BC
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Draft agreement submitted to Protarchos, the Alexandrian official before whom contracts were registered, in which Tryphon, president of eranos (mutual loan) associations, and three borrowers, Lysimachos, his wife Marion and Tryphon son of Theodotos, settle repayment of a 140-drachma eranos loan. The borrowers undertake to pay 10 drachmas a month for 13 months, with a penalty and interest for default, as mutual sureties. Written in Alexandria in 10 BC.
In English machine translation
To Protarchos
from Tryphon son of Ptolemaios, president of eranos-associations, and from Lysimachos son of Theodotos and his wife Marion daughter of Isakis and Tryphon son of Theodotos, the three Persians, Marion with her husband as guardian. Concerning the one share (?) of a ten-drachma eranos […], which amounted to 140, beginning from Phamenoth of year 20 of Caesar, which they bring forward, they agree to be paid (?), the […] having received by hand 140 drachmas and […] for the remaining 13 months from Pharmouthi of the same year, 10 drachmas each month, missing no month; or, in whatever month they fail to pay the 10 drachmas monthly, to pay within the term the amount still owed with an additional half, and for the period past the term interest at 2 drachmas, the right of execution belonging to Tryphon against them, as mutual sureties for payment, against any one of them and whichever of them he chooses, as if by a court judgment […]
[Fr]
Lysimachos son of Theodotos, Marion daughter of Isakis and Tryphon son of Theodotos: eranos of 10 drachmas, from Phamenoth 14, for the remaining 13 months from Pharmouthi.
An eranos was a contribution-based loan from an association, repaid in installments; "Persians" is a legal status designation of borrowers. Several passages, especially lines 7 and 10, are poorly legible and the translation there is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abzahlung eines Eranos - Darlehens, Alexandrien). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
bgu.4.1134
[ctr] Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Τρύφωνος τοῦ Πτολεμαίου προστάτου ἐράνων καὶ παρὰ Λυσιμάχου τοῦ Θεοδότου καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς Μαρίου τῆς Ἰσάκιος καὶ Τρύφωνος τοῦ Θεοδότου τῶν τριῶν Περσῶν μετὰ κυρίου τῆς Μαρίου τοῦ ἀνδρός. ὃ καταφέρουσιν ὄνομα ἓν ἐράνου δεκαδράχμου …ληρ…ου, ὃ ἑκατὸν καὶ μ ἦν , …