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Agreement acknowledging repayment of a loan of 500 drachmas TM 18631Alexandria

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An Alexandrian synchoresis (agreement filed before the court official Protarchos) in which Lucius Maccius Meleager acknowledges repayment by Herodes son of Apollonios, also on behalf of his wife Hermione, of a loan of 500 silver drachmas plus interest made in Augustus' 21st year. The loan contract is declared void and Lucius renounces all further claims.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos from Lucius Maccius Meleager and from Herodes son of Apollonios, of the deme Althaia. Lucius agrees that he has received from Herodes, from hand to hand out of his house, in discharge also of his wife Hermione daughter of Dionysios, the 500 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver which he lent him by agreement through the same court in the 21st year of Caesar, […], and their interest; that the agreement of the loan is void, and that neither Lucius nor anyone else on his behalf will proceed against Herodes either concerning the loan and the interest or concerning anything else at all, written or unwritten, of matters up to the present day, or else he shall be liable to the fixed penalty, besides the agreed terms remaining valid. We request (ratification). Year 26 of Caesar, Hathyr 8.

A synchoresis is a type of contract registered through the Alexandrian court (kriterion) headed by Protarchos under Augustus. The Gregorian equivalent is calculated from the regnal year; the records give no explicit date.

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.4.1174

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Alexandria

Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Λουκίου Μακκίου Μελεάγρου καὶ παρὰ Ἡρώδου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀλθαιέως. συνχωρεῖ ὁ Λούκιος ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ τοῦ Ἡρώδου διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἐπὶ περιλύσει καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ Ἑρμιόνης τῆς Διονυσίου ἃς ἐδάνεισεν αὐτῷ κατὰ συνχώρησιν διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κριτηρίου τῶι κα ἔτει Κ…