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Fragment of a loan contract in which two men from the village of Kellis in the Mothite nome, one of them Genas son of Ouonsis, acknowledge borrowing one gold solidus from a fellow villager named Aurelius. They promise to repay it at a set time in the twelfth indiction. The document dates to about AD 350.
The amount of one solidus is largely restored but is confirmed by the surviving numeral 'total 1 solidus'. The end of the text, with the repayment 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 Fragment of a 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.
Αὐρήλιοι Γενᾶ Οὐώνσιος .… καὶ … τοῦ […]…ου ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως τοῦ Μωθίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ… τοῦ […]ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογοῦμεν ἔχειν καὶ δεδανεῖσθαι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς ἰδίαν ἡμῶν καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χρείαν χρύσου νομισμάτιον ἕνα,γίνεται νομισμάτιον α, ἐφʼ ᾧτε ἡμᾶς τοῦτο ἀπ…
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