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Loan of wheat from Kaies to Harpaesis TM 215Pathyris4. Jan. 117 v.Chr.

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A notarial contract drawn up before the agoranomos at Pathyris in 117 BC, in which Kaies son of Pates lends 25 artabas of wheat to Harpaesis son of Portis, to be repaid at harvest in Pachon. Late repayment incurs a penalty of one and a half times the market price, with execution on the borrower's property.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 53, Choiak 15, at Pathyris, before Heliodoros, agoranomos. Kaies son of Pates, Persian of the epigone, has lent to Harpaesis son of Portis, Persian of the epigone, 25 artabas of wheat. Let the borrower repay this loan to Kaies in the month of Pachon of year 53, new and clean, delivered to his house at his own expense, by the measure with 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 Kaies have the right of execution upon Harpaesis and upon all his property, as if by a court judgment. [I, Areios, deputy of Heliodoros, have registered it.] [verso] Loan of Kaies to Harpaesis, 25 (artabas of) wheat

"Persian of the epigone" is a legal-status designation in Ptolemaic contracts, not necessarily an ethnic origin. The agoranomos was the official notary who registered contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek loan of wheat). 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 · 4. Jan. 117 v.Chr. · Pathyris

[r] Ἔτους νγ Χοιαχ ιε ἐν Παθύρει ἐφʼ Ἡλιοδώρου ἀγορανόμου· ἐδάνεισεν Καίης Πατῆτος Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς Ἁρπαήσει Πόρτιτος Πέρσῃ τῆς ἐπιγονῆς πυρῶν ἀρτάβας κε. τὸ δὲ δάνειον τοῦτο ἀποδότω ὁ δεδανεισμένος Καίητι ἐν μηνὶ Παχὼν τοῦ νγ ἔτους νέον καθαρὸν ἀποκαθεστάμενον εἰς οἶκον πρὸς …