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