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Acknowledgement of repayment of a loan of 100 silver drachmas TM 18630Alexandria5 - 4 v.Chr.

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An Alexandrian agreement (synchoresis) addressed to Protarchos, head of the court, in which Gaius Iulius Primus acknowledges repayment by Lucius Cornelius Acutus of a loan of 100 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver with interest. The loan contract is declared void and Gaius undertakes not to bring further claims.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos from Gaius Iulius Primus and from Lucius Cornelius Acutus. Gaius acknowledges that he has received from Lucius, from hand to hand out of his house, the 100 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver which he lent him according to an agreement (synchoresis) through the same court in the […] and twentieth year of Caesar, in Pharmouthi, and the interest on them for the elapsed time; and that the agreement of the loan is void, and that neither Gaius nor anyone else on his behalf will proceed against Lucius either concerning these matters or concerning any other matter at all, written or unwritten, from former times up to the present day, or else he shall be liable to the fixed penalty, in addition to the agreed terms remaining valid. We therefore request (this). Farewell.

A synchoresis was a type of Alexandrian contract registered through a court (kriterion), here headed by Protarchos. The year of the original loan, in Augustus' reign, is partly illegible.

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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bgu.4.1173

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5 - 4 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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