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Advance payment for wine from a leased vineyard TM 21520Prosopites ?, Ägypten140 - 141

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An autograph acknowledgment by a lessee of a vineyard that he has received in advance the price of a quantity of wine, which he promises to deliver in Hathyr of the 5th year of Antoninus Pius from the vintage of the vineyard he leases from the payer's nephew Theon. If he fails, he will pay double the current price with interest.

In English machine translation

I acknowledge that I have received from you, from hand to hand, the price of jars of wine of four choes each, of a stated number, for which I shall provide empty jars, and I shall deliver them to you in the month of Hathyr of the coming 5th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, by the wine measure ⟦in the sun-drying yard⟧ of Theon your nephew, near the farmstead of Monimos, in the sun-drying yard of the same, from the produce ⟦of the 4th year⟧ of the present 4th year of the vineyard of your same nephew, which I hold on lease, from whatever vat you choose, without delay. Otherwise, I shall pay you the current price at the time, doubled, with interest at the rate of two drachmas, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property. This my autograph is valid.

The number of jars is left unstated ('a stated number'), suggesting a form or draft. Interest 'at two drachmas' means 2 drachmas per mina per month, i.e. 24% a year; the 'sun-drying yard' (heliasterion) was where grapes were dried before pressing.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Payment in advance for Wine). 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 · 140 - 141 · Prosopites ?, Ägypten

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