A contract from Alexandria, addressed to the official Protarchos, in which Lyka and her uncle Dionysios acknowledge a loan of 310 silver drachmas from Achilleus at interest, repayable within three months. Lyka's mother Didyme guarantees that the borrowers will appear, under penalty of personal arrest. Dated Hathyr 8 of year 26 of Augustus (5 BC).
In English machine translation
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To Protarchos
from Achilleus son of Theon, of the deme Althaieus, and from Lyka daughter of Zoilos and of […], her mother's brother Dionysios son of Ptolemaios, and Didyme daughter of Ptolemaios, Persian of the Epigone, who stands surety for the appearance of both Lyka and Dionysios, being mother of Lyka and sister of Dionysios, with her husband Dionysios as guardian. Concerning the matters agreed between them:
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, and that they will pay interest of 8 obols per mina each month from Hathyr of the current year 26 of Caesar, and that they will repay the principal within three months from the same month without any delay; otherwise Lyka and Dionysios, or whichever of them is found, shall be liable to arrest immediately and be held in custody until they have paid the loan with an additional half, and the interest simply, and for the time overrun the 2 drachmas (per mina) according to the ordinance, the right of execution belonging to Achilleus against the debtors, who are mutual sureties for the payment, and against any one of them he chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment. And if Didyme does not produce Lyka and Dionysios before Achilleus, she too shall be liable to arrest and be held in custody until she has paid the aforesaid loan and the interest, and the execution for Achilleus shall be […] against Didyme herself and against all her property, as if by a court judgment, all guarantees and protections they may bring forward being invalid. We request (registration).
Year 26 of Caesar, Hathyr 8.
This belongs to the Alexandrian synchoreseis, agreements submitted to Protarchos, head of the court, for registration. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status label used in loan contracts, here making the surety liable to personal execution.
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.