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Acknowledgement of loan repayment and release from paramone TM 18604Alexandria4. Mai 10 v.Chr.

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An Alexandrian agreement (synchoresis) addressed to Protarchos in which Heliodoros acknowledges repayment by Didymos, Seuthes and Theodote of two loans of 660 and 100 drachmas, cancels the loan contracts and bank orders, and releases the son Didymos from a service obligation (paramone) tied to the smaller loan. Dated year 20 of Augustus, Pachon 9 (4 May 10 BC).

In English machine translation

[verso] To Protarchos from Heliodoros son of Heliodoros, also called Aphrodisios, of the Althaean deme, and from Didymos and Seuthes, both sons of Didymos, and from the wife of Didymos, Theodote daughter of Theodoros, with her husband as guardian. Heliodoros acknowledges that he has received from Didymos and Seuthes and Theodote, by hand, out of the house, the loans which he lent them under two agreements made through the same court in year 13 of Caesar, Phamenoth: one of 660 drachmas and the interest on them, the other of 100 drachmas; and that both agreements are void, and also the bank payment orders made under them through the bank of Zoilos, together with the service-residence (paramone) of Didymos, son of Didymos and Theodote, specified in the agreement for the 100 drachmas; and that neither Heliodoros nor anyone else on his behalf will proceed against Didymos and Seuthes and Theodote, either concerning these matters or concerning any other debt or claim whatsoever, written or unwritten, from former times up to the present day; nor will he proceed against the son Didymos concerning the matters of the paramone in any way; otherwise, besides the agreed terms being valid, he shall be liable, if he transgresses, for the damages and the fixed penalty. Year 20 of Caesar, Pachon 9. [recto] […] [both] Seuthes and Didymos Didymos and Theodote daughter of Theodoros to [Heliodoros] 760 silver drachmas

Paramone was a service obligation in which a debtor or relative lived with and worked for the creditor in lieu of interest. Protarchos headed the Alexandrian court (kriterion) before which such agreements were registered.

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.

bgu.4.1154

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 4. Mai 10 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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