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Interest-free loan of iron to an ironsmith at Pathyris TM 19Pathyris16. März - 14. Apr. 98 v.Chr.

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An agoranomic loan contract from Pathyris in which the ironsmith Galates acknowledges owing Horos 2,640 minas of iron, interest-free, to be repaid by Mesore 30. Late repayment incurs a daily penalty of 200 copper drachmas, and the contract was registered by Hermias, deputy of the notary Paniskos.

In English machine translation

Year 16, Phamenoth […], in Pathyris, before Hermias, deputy of Paniskos the agoranomos. Galates son of Pelaios, ironsmith, Persian of the epigone, acknowledges that he owes to Horos son of Nechoutes, Aratreus (?), Persian, 2,640 Ptolemaic minas of iron, without interest. Let the borrower repay this loan to the lender in the month Mesore, day 30, of the same year 16. If he does not repay within the fixed time or does not act as written, let him pay forthwith in the following month the value of the 2,640 minas of iron, and as a penalty for each day on which he does not repay the iron, 200 drachmas of copper for each day. And Horos shall have the right of execution upon Galates himself and upon all his property, exacting payment as if by a court judgment. I, Hermias, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it.

"Persian of the epigone" is a legal status designation in Ptolemaic contracts, not an ethnic description. Many names and formulae are restored by the editor from parallel contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as ’Homological’ Loan of Iron, at the Office of the Agoranomus). 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 · 16. März - 14. Apr. 98 v.Chr. · Pathyris

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