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Loan in the form of a deposit from a Roman cavalryman to three Jews TM 21036Babylon (Heliopolites)27. Nov. 59

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A contract in the form of a deposit, really an interest-free loan of 600 silver drachmas, made by three Jewish men, Petos son of Chelkias and his two sons, to the Roman cavalryman Lucius Vettius of the ala Vocontiorum, repayable by 30 Tybi. It was registered before the agoranomos of the military camp at Babylon in the Heliopolite nome on 27 November AD 59.

In English machine translation

Year 6 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Neos Sebastos 30, before Eirenaios, agoranomos of the Camp near Babylon in the Heliopolite nome. Petos son of Chelkias and his sons Chelkias and Dor[…]koas, the three of them Jews, Persians of the Epigone, from the Village of the Syrians, to Lucius Vettius, cavalryman of the ala Vocontiorum, turma of Longinus. We acknowledge that we have received from you from hand to hand, as sureties for one another for payment, a deposit of 600 drachmas of silver of Augustan and Ptolemaic coinage, total 600 silver drachmas, which we shall also repay to you by the 30th of Tybi of the present sixth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, without interest, paying out silver coin, stamped, approved, satisfactory, free of all deduction. If we do not repay as stated above, we shall pay the deposit, the 600 silver drachmas, and the interest for the overdue time, and a fine of another 120 silver drachmas, the right of execution belonging to you against us the three and against whichever one of us you choose, and against all our property of every kind, as you exact it validly. This deposit shall be valid everywhere. Petos, aged about […]6, dark-skinned, […] … [Chel]kias, aged about […] […] a scar on the shin […] […]

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status used in loan contracts, not an ethnic label. Framing a loan as a deposit (parathēkē) made default subject to harsher enforcement.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geldschuldschein in Form eines Depositum). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Nov. 59 · Babylon (Heliopolites)

ἔτους ἕκτου Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ λ ἐπʼ ἀγορανόμου Εἰρηναίου Παρεμβολῆς τῆς πρὸς Βαβυλῶνι τοῦ Ἡλιοπολείτου νομοῦ. Πετὼς Χελκίου καὶ οἱ τούτου υἱοὶ Χελκίας καὶ Δωρ[…]κοας οἱ τρεῖς Ἰουδαῖοι Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς τῶν ἀπὸ Σύρων κ…