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Loan of money from a former gymnasiarch to a priest TM 21519OxyrhynchusDec. 2nd, 331 A.D.

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A note of hand from Oxyrhynchus, dated 2 December 331, in which the priest Aurelius Pausirion son of Onnophris acknowledges a cash loan of 53 talents and 1,000 drachmas from a former gymnasiarch, son of Horion. He promises repayment within about a month, by 5 Tybi, with monthly interest per talent if he is late.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Junius Bassus and Flavius Ablabius, the most illustrious prefects, Choiak 5. To Aurelius […]n son of Horion, former gymnasiarch, […] of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Aurelius […], priest, Aurelius Pausirion son of Onnophris, from the same city, priest of the […] priests in the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you as a loan, from hand to hand, out of your house, 53 talents and 1,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 53 talents 1,000 drachmas, which I shall necessarily repay to you by the 5th of the following month Tybi of the present year 26, 16, 8, without any delay or evasion. Otherwise I shall pay you, for the time beyond the term, […] interest on each talent for each month, you having the right of execution against me and against all my property. This note of hand, written in two copies, is valid wherever it is produced and for anyone who produces it on your behalf, and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent. (2nd hand) I, Aurelius Pausirion, have received as a loan the 53 talents and 1,000 drachmas of silver and I shall repay as stated above, and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius […]mous, have signed.

The regnal years 26, 16, 8 refer to Constantine and his Caesars. The short thirty-day term may reflect a scarcity of money at the time; the interest rate is lost in a gap.

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.

Loan of Money

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · Dec. 2nd, 331 A.D. · Oxyrhynchus

A contract for a loan of money. Repayment fixed for thirty days, probably because of the increasing dearth of money at the time.

p.oslo.2.41

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Dez. 331 · Oxyrhynchos

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