Payment of an eranos-loan
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. The text was found on two separate fragments. Large and unattractive cursive.
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An Alexandrian court agreement (synchoresis) addressed to the judge Protarchos, in which Tryphon, president of eranos-associations, acknowledges receiving the remaining monthly instalments of an interest-free eranos loan from Amyntas and his brothers, the guarantors. Both sides cancel the related securities and promise not to bring further claims; it is dated Pharmouthi 16 of Augustus' year 20, probably 11 April 10 BC.
An eranos was a friendly, interest-free loan raised through a club or association, repaid in instalments. The papyrus came from mummy cartonnage found at Abusir el-Meleq, though it was written in Alexandria.
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.
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. The text was found on two separate fragments. Large and unattractive cursive.
Πρωτάρχῳ τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ κριτηρίου παρὰ Τρύφωνος τοῦ Πτολεμαίου προστάτου ἐράνων καὶ παρὰ Ἀμύντου τοῦ Τρύφωνος καὶ Τρύφωνος τοῦ Τρύφωνος καὶ Νικοστράτου τοῦΤρύφωνος συνχωροῦμεν ἐπὶ τοῖσδε ὁ μὲν Τρύφων ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἀμύνταν διεγγύων ἃ δεῖ αὐτοὺς διδόναι ὑπὲρ τῶν λοιπῶν …
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