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Loan of 100 silver drachmas from Gaius to Zmyrna and Helenos TM 18632Alexandria27. Dez. 5 v.Chr.

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A loan contract addressed to Protarchos, the official handling contracts in Alexandria, in which Zmyrna and her husband Helenos acknowledge receiving 100 drachmas of silver from Gaius, at monthly interest, to be repaid within two months. It is dated Tybi 1 of year 26 of Augustus, 27 December 5 BC.

In English machine translation

To Protarchos from Gaius […]utenos and from Zmyrna daughter of Asklepiades, Persian, with her guardian, her husband Helenos son of Kaisar, [Persian of the Epigone, and] from Helenos himself. Zmyrna and Helenos acknowledge that they have received from Gaius a loan, by hand, out of his house, of 100 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver, [at interest] of 2 drachmas per mina per month, which they will also repay within two months from Tybi of the present 26th year of Caesar without any delay; otherwise they shall pay the loan with an addition of one half, and the interest at the simple rate, and for the time beyond the term the same (interest), the right of execution [lying] with Gaius both against the persons ⟦of Zmyrna herself and against all her property⟧ ⟦as if by a court judgment⟧; and they shall not bring forward any pleas, or these shall be invalid. They being liable as mutual sureties for payment, and (execution being possible) against any one of them whom he chooses and against their property … as if by a court judgment. Year 26 of Caesar, Tybi 1.

This is an Alexandrian synchoresis, a contract submitted to the court official Protarchos. The interest of 2 drachmas per mina per month equals 24% a year; the deleted words show the scribe revising the execution clause.

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.

bgu.4.1175

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Dez. 5 v.Chr. · Alexandria

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