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Loan of gold solidi from a monastic oil-maker to Aurelius Phoibammon TM 18973Hermopolites19. Nov. 543

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A loan contract in which Aurelius Phoibammon of the village of Demetriou acknowledges borrowing 7 gold solidi, each lacking 6 carats, from Apa Phibis, monk and chief oil-maker of the monastery of Abba Apollos near Titkois. It was written in the Hermopolite nome on 19 November 543.

In English machine translation

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the all-renowned, Hathyr 22, of the seventh indiction. Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Mousaios, his mother being Pia, who writes slowly, from the village of Demetriou in the Hermopolite nome, to Apa Phibis, monk and chief oil-maker of the holy monastery of Abba Apollos within the boundary of the village of Titkois in the same Hermopolite nome, greetings. I, the aforementioned Phoibammon, acknowledge that I have received and borrowed from you, from your house, from hand to hand, for my own personal and pressing need, 7 imperial gold solidi of full weight in number, each less 6 carats, by the standard of the village of Demetriou; total 7 gold solidi less 42 carats […] […] [verso] […] document of Phoibammon son of Mousaios [to] Phibis […]

The coins are reckoned as solidi minus 6 carats each, a common Late Antique way of expressing light-weight gold coins. The text is written on a wooden tablet and breaks off before the repayment terms.

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 · 19. Nov. 543 · Hermopolites

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