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Loan of wheat from Nechoutes to Phatres TM 213Pathyris24. Okt. 111 v.Chr.

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A notarial contract registered before the agoranomos Ammonios at Pathyris recording a loan of 13 1/3 artabas of wheat from Nechoutes to Phatres, to be repaid at harvest in Pachon of the same year. Late repayment carries a penalty of one and a half times the market price.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 7, Phaophi 5, at Pathyris, before Ammonios, agoranomos. Nechoutes son of Petearsemtheus, Persian, one of the prosgraphoi, has lent to Phatres son of Chensthotes, Persian of the epigone, 13 1/3 artabas of wheat, including interest. The borrower shall repay the loan to Nechoutes in the month of Pachon of the 7th year, new, clean, delivered to his house at his own expense, by the measure by which he also received it. If he does not repay within the fixed time, let him pay at once one and a half times the price that will prevail in the market. And let Nechoutes have the right of execution upon Phatres and upon all his property, as if by court judgment. I, Ammonios, have registered it. [verso] Loan of Nechoutes to Phatres, 13 1/3 artabas of wheat.

"Persian" and "Persian of the epigone" are legal-status designations in Ptolemaic Egypt rather than ethnic labels; the prosgraphoi were a category of soldiers. The amount stated includes the interest, a common way of concealing the interest in such loans.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 24. Okt. 111 v.Chr. · Pathyris

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