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Six-witness loan of 200 drachmas at Herakleopolis TM 20105Herakleopolis20. Dez. 226
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A loan contract in which Aurelius Ammonas of Oxyrhynchus acknowledges borrowing 200 silver drachmas at 1% monthly interest from a man of the Arsinoite metropolis, to be repaid in Pauni. It was drawn up at Herakleopolis in AD 226 as a six-witness contract registered by the supervisor of contracts.
In English machine translation
Choiak 24, at Herakleopolis above Memphis, (contract) of six witnesses.
Aurelius Ammon, about 32 years old, scar on the right knee.
I, Aurelius Demetrios, supervisor of contracts, have signed.
Year 6 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Caesar the lord.
I, Aurelius Ammonas son of Ammonas, his mother being Thaisous, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, acknowledge that I have borrowed from Aurelius […] […] […], his mother being Thermoutharion, from the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome, from the quarter of the Gymnasium,
as capital, 200 drachmas of silver of imperial coinage, total 200 drachmas, at interest of 1 drachma per mina each month,
which I will repay to you in the month of Pauni of the present […] year
without delay, you and your agents having the right of execution against me and against all my property of every kind, as if by a court judgment; and having been asked whether this has been done properly, I declared my assent to the six-witness loan […]
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A 'six-witness' (hexamartyron) contract was a private agreement validated by six witnesses; the interest of one drachma per mina monthly equals 12% a year. The lender's name 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 Schuldschein). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chrest.mitt.136
Χοιὰκ κδ ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει τῇ ὑπὲρ Μέμφιν ἑξαμάρτυρον. Αὐρήλιος Ἄμμων ὡς ἐτῶν λβ οὐλὴ γόνατι δεξιῷ. Αὐρήλιος Δημήτριος ἐπιτηρητὴς συναλλαγμάτων σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους ϛ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀλεξάνδρου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Αὐρήλιος Ἀμμωνᾶς Ἀμμωνᾶτος μητρὸς Θαισοῦτος ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων …