One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21625

Loan of money from Aurelius Ammon to Aurelius Choous of Taampemou TM 21625Oxyrhynchos26. Apr. - 25. Mai 318

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A loan contract, written out twice, in which Aurelius Choous of the village of Taampemou acknowledges borrowing 3 talents 3,000 drachmas from Aurelius Ammon of Oxyrhynchus, to be repaid interest-free within the current month Pachon, with interest due if he is late. It dates to AD 318.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] In the consulship of our masters Licinius Augustus for the 5th time and Crispus the most illustrious Caesar for the 1st time. Aurelius Choous son of Kames, his mother being Tallos, from the village of Taampemou in the 5th pagus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelius Ammon son of Theon, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you as a loan, from hand to hand, out of your house, 3 talents and 3,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 3 talents 3,000 drachmas, which I shall of necessity repay to you in the current month Pachon without interest and without any delay or evasion; otherwise I shall pay you for the time overrun the established interest on each mina for each month, you having the right of execution […] […] [recto, column 2] In the consulship of our masters Licinius Augustus for the 5th time and Crispus the most illustrious Caesar for the 1st time. Aurelius Choous son of Kames, his mother being Tallos, from the village of Taampemou in the 5th pagus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelius Ammon son of Theon, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you as a loan, from hand to hand, out of your house, 3 talents and 3,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 3 talents 3,000 drachmas, which I shall of necessity repay to you in the current month Pachon without interest and without any delay or evasion; otherwise I shall pay you for the time overrun the established interest on each mina for each month, you having the right of execution […] […] [verso] Note of hand of Choous from Tampemou, 3 talents 3,000 drachmas.

The document is a cheirographon (note of hand) written in two copies on the same sheet; the docket on the back spells the village Tampemou. The 'established interest' was a customary rate per mina per month.

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.oxy.61.4124

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Apr. - 25. Mai 318 · Oxyrhynchos

[r,1] ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Λικινίου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ε καὶ Κρίσπου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α. Αὐρήλιος Χωοῦς Καμῆτος μητρὸς Ταλλῶτος ἀπὸ κώμης Τααμπεμοῦ ε πάγου τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἄμμωνι Θέωνος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ …