A loan contract in which five brothers from Apollonopolis Ano (Edfu) acknowledge borrowing 2 1/3 gold solidi from several women of the same town for their own needs. They promise to repay it interest-free in seven yearly instalments of 1/3 solidus each in the month of Thoth. It was written in Epeiph of the 1st indiction, AD 627.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† In the name of the holy and life-giving Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit † Epeiph, at the beginning of the 1st indiction.
The Aurelii Dios and Isakos and Mousaios and Eudoxias and Athanasias, full brothers, of father Ioannes also called […]poukis, of mother […]ora, originating from Apollonopolis Ano, † to the Aureliae Thekla […], daughter of Abraamios son of Enoch, of mother Taam Kotsis, and Maria also called Tlôisa, and Maria her sister, of father Danielios, of mother Tsiphos, and S[…], daughter of Isakios, of mother Sophia, from the same Apollonopolis, greetings. We acknowledge that we have received and borrowed from you today for our own pressing need two and one-third gold solidi by the standard of Apollonopolis, total 2 1/3 gold solidi only, and these, God willing, we are ready to pay back to you in seven instalments as follows: one-third of a solidus for each instalment every year, without interest, in the month of Thoth as is proper, without any dispute or delay, always […] this one bringing to you […]
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[verso]
† Security: Dios and Isakos and Mousaios and Eudoxias and Athanasias, 2 1/3 solidi in 7 instalments, from each instalment, without interest † † †
The solidus was the standard Byzantine gold coin; the loan is measured by the local Apollonopolis weight standard. The seven instalments of 1/3 solidus total 2 1/3, matching the principal.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.