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Loan of 310 drachmas from Achilleus to Lyka and Dionysios TM 18589Alexandria29. Aug. - 24. Nov. 5 v.Chr.

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A loan agreement submitted to the Alexandrian court official Protarchos: Lyka and her husband Dionysios acknowledge borrowing 310 Ptolemaic silver drachmas from Achilleus, with monthly interest, repayable within three months under penalty of arrest and execution on their property. It dates to the 26th year of Augustus (5 BC) at Alexandria.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Protarchos, the official in charge of the court, from Achilleus son of Theon, of the deme Althaieus, and from Lyka daughter of Zoilos, Persian woman, with her guardian, her husband Dionysios son of Ptolemaios, Persian of the Epigone, and from Dionysios himself. Lyka and Dionysios acknowledge that they have received from Achilleus a loan, from hand to hand out of his house, of 310 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, on which they will pay interest of 8 obols per mina each month from Hathyr of the present 26th year of Caesar, and they will repay the principal within 3 months from the same month without any delay; otherwise they shall be liable to immediate arrest, or whichever of them appears, and be held in custody until they pay the loan with an addition of one half, and the interest at the simple rate, and for the time overdue the interest of 2 drachmas according to the ordinance, Achilleus having the right of execution against the debtors, who are mutually guarantors for payment, and against any one of them he chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment, all guarantees and every protection they may put forward being invalid. We request (this). I, Achilleus, agree according to the above terms. We, Lyka and Dionysios, agree according to the above terms. I, Dionysios, have signed as guardian of my wife (?) and have written on her behalf, since she does not know letters. […]

This is one of the Alexandrian synchoresis documents, contracts drawn up as petitions to the head of the court (the kriterion). Interest of 8 obols per mina monthly equals 16% a year; 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status designation for debtors.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehen mit Bürgschaft, 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. - 24. Nov. 5 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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