Two Alexandrian synchoresis drafts addressed to the court official Protarchos, dated 7 April 13 BC. In the first Artemis acknowledges repayment of a 1,000-drachma loan by Protarchos and Opora, cancels the loan contract and returns the title documents for two slaves pledged as security; in the second Apollonios and Ptolema acknowledge an interest-free loan of 52 drachmas from Dios.
In English machine translation
To Protarchos
from Artemis daughter of […], citizen woman, with her husband Demetrios son of […], of the deme Althaieus, as guardian, and from Protarchos son of […], of the deme Zeneios, and his wife Opora daughter of Protarchos, with her husband as guardian. Artemis acknowledges that she has received from Protarchos and Opora, from hand to hand out of the house, the 1,000 silver drachmas which she lent them according to a synchoresis through the same court in year 11 of Caesar, in Mesore, together with their interest for the overdue period; and that the synchoresis of the loan is void; and that neither Artemis nor anyone else on her behalf will proceed against Protarchos and Opora either concerning these matters or concerning anything else whatsoever, written or unwritten, up to the present day, or else she shall be liable to the fixed penalty, in addition to the agreements remaining valid. And Opora has recovered from Artemis the two certificates of title (aparchai) for the slaves Dionysios and Erotion which she had given her as security, in the same condition in which she received them.
Year 17 of Caesar, Pharmouthi 12.
To Protarchos
from Dios son of Aristonikos, of the deme Althaieus, and from Apollonios son of Xenon, Persian of the epigone, and his wife Ptolema daughter of Kerkion, Persian woman, with her husband as guardian. Apollonios and Ptolema acknowledge that they have received from Dios, from hand to hand out of the house, a loan of 52 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, without interest, which they will also repay within […] months from Pharmouthi of the current year 17 of Caesar without any delay; otherwise they shall be liable to immediate arrest and be held in custody until they pay the loan with an additional half, and for the overdue time the interest according to the ordinance at 2 drachmas, the right of execution belonging to Dios both against them, being mutual guarantors for payment, and against any one of them he chooses, and against all their property, as if by court judgment, all pleas of good faith which they may bring and all protection being void. We request (that the agreement be registered).
Year 17 of Caesar, Pharmouthi 12.
A synchoresis was a contract registered before the Alexandrian court headed by Protarchos. 'Aparchai' here are documents attesting ownership of the pledged slaves; the repayment period of the second loan is illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rückzahlung eines Darlehens mit Pfand, 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.