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Interest-free loan of silver from Sosipatros to Aristoklea and Tryphaina TM 18612Alexandria17-16 BC

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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.

In English machine translation

To Achaios […] from Sosipatros son of […] and from Aristoklea daughter of […], Persian woman, with her guardian […], and Tryphaina daughter of […], Persian woman, with her guardian […]. Aristoklea and Tryphaina agree that they have received from Sosipatros a loan, from hand to hand out of his house, of 1,080 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, without interest, which they will also repay within ten months counting from […] of the present fourteenth year of Caesar, without any delay; otherwise they are to be liable to arrest and to be held in custody until they pay the loan, the 1,080 drachmas of silver, with the addition of one half immediately, and for the time beyond the term the interest according to the ordinance at 2 drachmas, the right of execution belonging to Sosipatros both against the debtors, who are mutual sureties for the payment, and against any one of them he chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment, all guarantees they may bring forward and all protection being invalid. This loan is separate from the further 3 talents of silver which the same Aristoklea and Tryphaina owe Sosipatros under another agreement made through the same court.

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.

Loan contract

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE43782 · 17-16 BC · Alexandria

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.

bgu.4.1162

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17 - 16 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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…