Loan of 600 drachmas with a slave as security TM 18593AlexandriaAug. 30th-Feb. 25th, 14-13 BC

To Protarchos, the official in charge of the court, from Dionysios son of Dionysios and from Eirene daughter of Patroklos, Persian woman, with as guardian her brother Patroklos son of Ammonios. Concerning the matters in dispute, Eirene agrees that she has received from Dionysios a loan, from hand to hand out of his house, of 600 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, at interest of 9 obols per mina for each month, which she will also repay within six months from Mecheir of the current 17th year of Caesar, paying the interest monthly and regularly and the principal in the last month without any delay; otherwise she is to be liable to immediate arrest and held in custody until she pays the loan with an additional half and the interest at the simple rate, and for the time overdue the interest of 2 drachmas laid down by the ordinance, Dionysios having the right of execution against Eirene herself and against all her property as if by a court judgment, and further against the slave Erotion belonging to Eirene, concerning whom she has also handed over to Dionysios as security the registration of […] which she holds, and until she has fully discharged the debt she will keep her unalienated and unencumbered; and if it should happen that she runs away or suffers some mortal fate, even so the loan and the interest are to be free from all risk, all securities that she may produce and every protection being invalid, and […] [… 4 lines lost …]