Borrowing contract
Borrowing contract agreed between Aur. Apollos, son of Dioscoros, protocometes of Aphrodito, and Aurelius Anouphios. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
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Loan contract of Anouphios with Apollos, protokometes of Aphrodite TM 18872Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 525
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A loan contract in which Aurelius Anouphios, son of a grain-measurer, acknowledges borrowing from Aurelius Apollos, the village headman (protokometes) of Aphrodite and father of Dioskoros, promising repayment in the coming fifth indiction. It was written at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome on 14 July 525.
In English machine translation
643
In the consulship of Flavius Philoxenos the most glorious, Epeiph 20, of the fourth indiction.
To Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros of blessed memory, the most admirable protokometes of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, from Aurelius Anouphios, whose father is Ioannes, grain-measurer, and whose mother is Tsempnouthia, from the same village of Aphrodite, greetings.
I acknowledge by this my written security that I have received and [borrowed] from you for my own personal and pressing need […] […] and I am ready to put these into the fourth(?) […] […] with God's help, of the coming fifth indiction, […] […] sixty […] […] of the […] pretext and delay […] my […] pledged to you […] […]
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The text belongs to the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodite; the loaned item and amount are lost in the damaged lines. The opening number 643 (χμγ) is a Christian numerical cryptogram usually read as 'God is help' or similar.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat d’imprunt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.masp.2.67125
χμγ ὑπατείας Φλαυΐου Φιλοξένου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου, Ἐπεὶφ κ τετάρτης ἰνδικτίονος. Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλῶτι, υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Διοσκόρου, τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ πρωτοκωμήτῃ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ, παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀνουφίου, ἐκ πατρὸςἸωάννου σιτομέτρου, μητρὸς Τσεμπνουθίας, ἀπ…