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An agreement (synchoresis) submitted to Protarchos in Alexandria in which Arsinoe acknowledges that Thermion has repaid a loan of 300 silver drachmas made the previous year. The loan contract and the associated service agreement (paramone) of Thermion's son Paron are declared void, and Arsinoe renounces further claims. Dated 16 May 14 BC.
A paramone was a service arrangement in which a person (here Thermion's son Paron) worked for the creditor as security or interest for a loan. The papyrus comes from mummy cartonnage found at Abusir el-Meleq; one catalogue title wrongly calls it the end of a wet-nurse contract, which belongs to the other text on the sheet.
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 παραμονή , 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.
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. Top part is missing. Small cursive with many abbreviations. On the verso two documents, one under the other. On the recto, in a different hand, BGU IV 1156.
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