Loan contract
From cartonnage found in Abusir el meleq. Large, squiggly hand. Occasional ommission of letters, not explicable as abbreviation. On the verso is BGU IV 1153.
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A loan agreement addressed to the official Achaios, in which two women, Aristoklea and Tryphaina, acknowledge receiving an interest-free loan of 1,080 silver drachmas from Sosipatros, to be repaid within ten months. It sets penalties for late payment and notes that they owe him a further 3 talents under a separate agreement; it was drawn up in Alexandria in 17-16 BC.
This is a synchoresis, a type of Alexandrian agreement registered before a court (here addressed to Achaios); 'Persian woman' was a legal status designation, not ethnicity. The papyrus was recovered from mummy cartonnage at Abusir el-Melek.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehnsurkunde, 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. Large, squiggly hand. Occasional ommission of letters, not explicable as abbreviation. On the verso is BGU IV 1153.
Ἀχαίωι[…] παρὰ Σωσιπάτρου τοῦ[…]καὶ παρὰ Ἀριστοκλήας τῆς[…]Περσίνης μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ[…]καὶ Τρυφαίνης τῆς[…]Περσίνης μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ[…]. συνχωροῦσιν ἡ Ἀριστοκλήα καὶ Τρύφαινα ἔχειν παρὰ τοῦ Σωσιπάτρου δάνειον διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου Πτολεμαικοῦ δραχμὰς χιλίας ὀγδοήκοντα ἄτοκον…
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