Loan of Money
Incomplete draft(?) of a contract by which a woman(?) loans 3 nomismatia to three men of Aphrodite, perhaps acting for the village community as protokometai
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21382
Loan of three gold solidi to three men of Aphrodite TM 21382Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt12/13 September 544 (or 529) A.D.
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A loan contract from Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome in which the priest Victor, Apollos son of Dioskoros and Senouthes acknowledge owing 3 gold solidi to a pious woman (apparently with Tsepna), repayable on demand with interest of 3 carats per solidus per year. It is dated Thoth 15 of an eighth indiction, in the 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
☧ To the most pious […]
and Tsepna, daughter […] …
Victor son of Besarion, priest, and Apollos son of Dioskoros and Senouthes son of Apollos, from the village of Aphrodite of the Antaiopolite nome. We have received and owe you […] three gold solidi, total 3 gold solidi, as aforesaid, and we are ready to provide them to you whenever you wish, and as interest on each solidus 3 carats per year from today's date, which is Thoth 15 of the eighth indiction, without any dispute or delay; and for your security we have made this security with our signature as aforesaid. Written Thoth 15 of the eighth indiction.
† I, Victor son of Besarion, priest, agree to the security and will repay as aforesaid. ☧
I, Senouthes son of Apollos, the aforesaid, agree as aforesaid. ☧
☧ I, Apollos son of Dioskoros, the aforesaid, agree as aforesaid. ☧
Aurelius […]
The text may be an incomplete draft, and the borrowers may have acted for the village community. Interest of 3 carats per solidus (24 carats) amounts to 12.5% per year.
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.
p.mich.13.669
☧ τῇ εὐλαβεστάτῃ[…] καὶ Τσέπνα θυγατρὸς[…]…νος… Βίκτωρ Βησαρίωνος πρεσβύτερος καὶ Ἀπολλῶς Διοσκόρου καὶ Σενούθης Ἀπολλῶτος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ. ἔχομεν καὶ χρεωστοῦμεν ὑμῖν[…]…ιε… χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια τρία, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια γ ὡς πρόκειται καὶ ἑτοίμως …