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Agreement on the repayment of an eranos loan TM 18579AlexandriaApril 11th, 10 BC?

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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.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos, the official in charge of the court, from Tryphon son of Ptolemaios, president of eranos-associations, and from Amyntas son of Tryphon and Tryphon son of Tryphon and Nikostratos son of Tryphon. We agree on the following terms: Tryphon (acknowledges) that he has received from Amyntas and his associates, the guarantors, what they were obliged to pay for the remaining months as monthly instalments of the [...] which they took up [...] according to the notarial letter in the 19th year of Caesar [...] of the eranos-loan of 10 drachmas in the monthly payment, and that the security mentioned is void; and Amyntas and his associates (agree) that the handwritten note of the payment which Tryphon issued is void [...] because it is produced (?) and he has received it, and that Tryphon will not proceed, nor anyone else on his behalf, concerning any of the foregoing matters regarding [...]; and that Amyntas and his associates will not proceed against Tryphon concerning [...] [...] that they will repel (any claimant) at their own expense [...] [...] [...] as a favour (?) with half as much again [...] and, apart from the agreements being valid, that (the party in breach) be liable for damages and expenses and the fixed penalty. Year 20 of Caesar, Pharmouthi 16.

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.

Payment of an eranos-loan

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE43784 · April 11th, 10 BC? · Alexandria

From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. The text was found on two separate fragments. Large and unattractive cursive.

bgu.4.1135

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Apr. 10 v.Chr. (Jahr unsicher) · Alexandria

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 …