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Fragment of a loan contract from Oxyrhynchus in which a woman, acting with her full brother Didymos as guardian, acknowledges receiving 84 silver drachmas through the bank of Dionysios at the Sarapieion from Hermaios also called Hermaion. She undertakes to pay interest of 1 drachma per mina monthly and to repay the capital on 30 Mesore of Hadrian's second year.
The borrower's name is lost with the opening lines; the feminine form 'myself' shows she was a woman. Interest of 1 drachma per mina (100 drachmas) per month equals 12% a year, the usual rate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
[… ? lines lost …] ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ὁμογνησίου ἀδελφοῦ Διδύμου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως Ἑρμαίῳ τῷ καὶ Ἑρμαίωνι Διονυσίου Χαιρήμονος μητρὸς Θεολυμπίου Νεοπτολέμου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ διὰ τῆς ἐπὶ τοῦ πρὸς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει Σαραπιείου Δ…
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