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Loan of gold solidi from Ioannes to Annas and his sons TM 18969Megtolis (Hermopolites)11. Febr. 541

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A loan contract in which Annas son of Mouses and his three sons Daniel, Phoibammon and Apollos, of the village of Mengolis in the Hermopolite nome, acknowledge borrowing 10 gold solidi less 60 carats from Ioannes son of Apollos of the village of Achilleus. It was written on 11 February 541, and the repayment terms are lost.

In English machine translation

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Iustinus the most glorious [...], Mecheir 17, 4th indiction. † Aurelii Annas son of Mouses, his mother being Erebekka, [with] Daniel and Phoibammon and Apollos his sons, from the village of Mengolis [of the] Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Ioannes son of Apollos from the village of Achilleus of the same nome, greetings. We, the aforementioned Annas and Daniel and Phoibammon and Apollos, acknowledge by this my written security that we have received and borrowed from you for my own personal and pressing need, from hand to hand out of your house, as principal of gold, imperial solidi of good quality, ten in number, less sixty carats, making 10 gold solidi less 60 carats … [...] [verso] 10 solidi less [60] carats …

Solidi 'less carats' means each coin or the total was reckoned short by a number of carats (1/24 of a solidus), a common way of stating gold sums in this period. The text was written on a wooden tablet, and the verso repeats the sum as a docket.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan of Money). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Febr. 541 · Megtolis (Hermopolites)

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