Loan contract from Hermopolis, dated 31 March 597, in which the widow Aurelia Eudoxia, also called Asia, acknowledges borrowing one gold solidus less 6 carats from Aurelius Agapetos, son of the late Damianos. She promises to repay on demand with monthly interest of a quarter carat; the end of the document is lost.
In English machine translation
† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, in the reign of our most divine master Flavius Mauricius Tiberius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year 15, Pharmouthi 5, of the fifteenth indiction, in Hermopolis of the Thebaid.
† Aurelia Eudoxia, daughter of Phoibammon, her mother being Eulogia, widow, from this city of the Hermopolites, to Aurelius Agapetos, the most admirable, son of Damianos of blessed memory, from the same city, greetings. I, the aforementioned Eudoxia also called Asia, acknowledge that I have received and borrowed from you, for my urgent and unavoidable need, by hand out of your house, as principal, 1 solidus of gold less 6 carats by the standard of Hermopolis; total 1 gold solidus less 6 carats, which I will repay to you whenever you wish, together with its interest (?) of […] a quarter carat per month, without any delay or dispute or judgment or lawsuit, this interest being reckoned from today's date, which is Pharmouthi 5 of the same fifteenth indiction, until the repayment of the same debt, the interest of the repayment of this debt with the same interest […] general (?) […]
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"Paramythia" (literally "consolation") is a Byzantine euphemism for interest on a loan. The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus, normally 1/24.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mutuo di danaro). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.