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Acknowledgement of repayment of a loan of 400 drachmas TM 18620Alexandria11 - 10 v.Chr.

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An Alexandrian agreement (synchoresis) addressed to Protarchos, in which the Roman Marcus Tigellius Ialysos acknowledges repayment, through the bank of Hermias, of a 400-drachma loan with interest made to Kalathos also called Philemon, whose agent Eros paid it. The loan contract is declared void and the lender renounces all further claims.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos from Marcus Tigellius Ialysos and from Eros son of Diodoros, who has been sent to complete this agreement by Kalathos also called Philemon, son of […]doros. Marcus Tigellius Ialysos agrees, having been persuaded by Eros, that he has received from him through the bank of Hermias, in the name of Kalathos, 400 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, which he lent to Kalathos by an agreement through the daybook of the record office in former times, and also all the interest for the subsequent time; that the agreement of the loan and the bank payment order made in connection with it through the same bank are void; that Marcus Tigellius Ialysos, or anyone else on his behalf, will not proceed against Kalathos also called Philemon, either concerning these matters or concerning any other debt or claim at all, or any written or unwritten matter whatever, from former times up to the present day; otherwise, besides the agreed terms remaining valid, he who transgresses shall be liable for the damages and the fixed penalty. Year 20 of Caesar, […] 29 […]

Protarchos was the official in charge of the Alexandrian court before which such synchoresis agreements were registered. Year 20 of Caesar refers to Augustus.

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 Darlehns, 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11 - 10 v.Chr. · Alexandria

Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Μάρκου Τιγελλίου Ἰαλύσου καὶ παρὰ Ἔρωτος τοῦ Διοδώρου τοῦ διαπεσταλμένου πρὸς τελείωσιν τῆσδε τῆς συγχωρήσεως ὑπὸ Καλάθου τοῦ καὶ Φιλήμονος τοῦ …[…] δώρου. συνχωρεῖ ὁ Μᾶρκος Τιγέλλιος Ἰάλυσος συνπεπεισμένος ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἔρωτος ἀπεσχηκέναι παρʼ αὐτοῦ διὰ τῆς Ἑρμίου τραπέ…