Payment of a loan with deposit
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. Hand similar to BGU IV 1155. On the recto contents of BGU IV 1134.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18601
Acknowledgement of repayment of two loans and return of pledged documents TM 18601Alexandria11-10 BC
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An agreement (synchoresis) addressed to Protarchos, head of the Alexandrian court, in which Stephanos acknowledges repayment by Diodoros, through a bank, of two loans of 300 and 200 silver drachmas with interest, cancels the loan contracts and renounces further claims. Diodoros in turn acknowledges recovering the documents he had deposited as security, including a copy of a contract concerning a slave. Alexandria, 11-10 BC.
In English machine translation
To Protarchos
from Stephanos son of Kaisar and from Diodoros son of Diodoros. Stephanos acknowledges that he has received from Diodoros, through the money-changing bank of Helenos, the loans which he lent him under two agreements (synchoreseis) made through the same court in Year 8 of Caesar, one in Phaophi of 300 silver drachmas, the other in Phamenoth of 200 silver drachmas, and for both loans also the interest for the elapsed time; and that the said agreements are void, together with the bank payment orders made in respect of each of them through Tet… his own … and of the money-changing bank of Demetrios; and that Stephanos shall not proceed, nor anyone else on his behalf, against Diodoros either concerning these matters or concerning any other matter whatsoever, written or unwritten, from former times up to the present day; otherwise, besides the validity of what has been agreed, he shall be liable for the damages and the fixed penalty. Diodoros for his part acknowledges that he has recovered from Stephanos what he gave him under the agreement of the month of Phaophi, all the documents … […] and a copy of an agreement concerning a slave, such as he had handed over.
A synchoresis was a contract registered before the Alexandrian court (kriterion) headed by Protarchos. The papyrus survived in mummy cartonnage found at Abusir el-Meleq.
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.
bgu.4.1152
Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Στεφάνου τοῦ Καίσαρος καὶ παρὰ Διοδώρου τοῦ Διοδώρου. συγχωρεῖ ὁ Στέφανος ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ τοῦ Διοδώρου διὰ τῆς Ἑλένου κολλυβιστικῆς τραπέζης τὰ δάνεια ἃ ἐδάνεισεν αὐτῷ κατὰ συνχωρήσεις τὰς διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κριτηρίου γεγονυίας δύο τῶι η ἔτει Καίσαρος μίαν μὲν Φαῶφι ἀρ…