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Annulment of the cession of a loan of 1,000 drachmas TM 18628Alexandria26. Apr. 10 v.Chr.

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An Alexandrian agreement (synchoresis) addressed to the official Protarchos, by which Stephanos, a member of the imperial household, and Zamanos annul a fictitious transfer of a 1,000-drachma loan owed by Herodes son of Isidoros. Stephanos regains the right to collect the loan and interest and grants Herodes eight months to repay, dated 26 April 10 BC.

In English machine translation

Sheet […] To Protarchos from Stephanos, slave (?) of Caesar, and from Zamanos son of […], with the presence and consent to this agreement of Herodes son of Isidoros, Persian of the Epigone. We agree with each other on the following terms: Zamanos (agrees) that the agreement which Stephanos, with the consent of Herodes, transferred to him through the same court in the 19th year of Caesar, Pachon, concerning the cession of a loan of 1,000 drachmas which Stephanos lent to Herodes under another agreement through the same court in the 17th year of Caesar, Mesore, is void, because it was made to Zamanos himself in trust, and that Stephanos himself may exact from the debtor the loan and the interest owed, just as before; and Stephanos, having been paid by Herodes the interest on the capital at each new moon through the months after the cession up to Pharmouthi of the present year, (agrees) that he has allotted for repayment eight months from Pachon 1 of the same year, within which, having recovered what is his own, he will cancel the loan agreement; and that neither of them will proceed against Herodes concerning anything at all, written or unwritten, up to the present day, except that Stephanos may proceed for the 1,000 drachmas of silver and the interest from Pachon; otherwise, besides the agreed terms being valid, the transgressor shall be liable for damages and the stipulated penalty. We request (this). Farewell. Year 20 of Caesar, Pachon 1.

A synchoresis was an agreement registered before the Alexandrian court (kriterion) headed by Protarchos. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status designation, not an ethnic one.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aufhebung der Cession 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.

bgu.4.1171

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Apr. 10 v.Chr. · Alexandria

κόλλημα … Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Στεφάνου τοῦ Καίσαρος καὶ παρὰ Ζαμανου τοῦ[…]τος παρόντος καὶ συνευδοκοῦντος τῇδὲ τῇ συνχωρήσει Ἡρώδου τοῦ Ἰσιδώρου Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. συνχωροῦμεν πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἐπὶ τοῖσδε· ὁ μὲν Ζαμανος εἶναι … ἄκυρον ἣν ἀνήνεγκεν εἰς αὐτὸν ὁ Στέφανος συνευδοκοῦντος τοῦ…