Agreement among co-borrowers on repayment of a loan of 600 drachmas TM 18588Alexandria31. März 13 v.Chr.

To Protarchos from Tryphon son of Tryphon and from Pompeius son of Pompeius and Ptolemaios son of Philokles, both Persians of the Epigone. Since we three have borrowed from […] son of […] also called (?) Pamphilos, under a memorandum contract in the present seventeenth year of Caesar, in Phamenoth, 600 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, bearing interest, also by bank transfer through the money-changing bank of Kastor, and of this sum Pompeius has used 520 drachmas of silver and Ptolemaios the remaining 80 drachmas, we agree on these terms: that each shall repay the capital that is in his own hands to the […] together with the interest within the time indicated in the contract; and that both shall guarantee that Tryphon is not pressed for payment on account of the loan, and each of them shall guarantee the other regarding the capital he has used; and that they shall pay whatever the other is made to pay or is pressed to pay on this account, with interest and the damages and the costs, execution being made upon the party in breach and upon all his property, as if by a court judgement, all guarantees which he may bring forward being invalid, as well as every protection. Year 17 of Caesar, Pharmouthi 5.