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Loan of a gold solidus from Aurelius Al…nos to Aurelia Kolleuthis TM 20090Herakleopolis389

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Beginning of a loan contract in which Aurelia Kolleuthis, a woman living at the harbour of Herakleopolis, acknowledges receiving one gold solidus from Aurelius Al…nos son of Hermes, to be repaid on demand. It is dated by the consuls of AD 389.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Timasius and Promotus, the most illustrious, […] in Herakleopolis. Aurelia Kolleuthis, daughter of Antinous(?), her mother being Al…, living at the harbour, having the right of children, to Aurelius Al…nos son of Hermes, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have […] and received from you for my own use 1 gold solidus, as capital, total 1 gold solidus of capital, the repayment of which I will make to you whenever you wish […] [… lines lost …]

The "right of children" (ius liberorum) allowed a woman with enough children to conduct legal business without a guardian. The rest of the contract, including the terms and signatures, is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein Darlehensvertrag). 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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bgu.3.943

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 389 · Herakleopolis

ὑπατείας Τιμασίου καὶ Προμώτου τῶν λαμπροτάτων […]α ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει. Αὐρηλία Κολλεῦθις Ἀντίνφου μητρὸς Αλλ… οἰκοῦσα ἐν τῷ ὅρμῳ, τέκνων δίκαιον ἔχουσα Αὐρηλίῳ Αλ…νῳ Ἑρμοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ[…]αι καὶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς ἰδίαν χρείαν χρυσίου νομισμάτιον ἓν κ…