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Interest-free loan of copper money from the priest Psenimouthis to two brothers TM 218Pathyris29. Dez. 113 v.Chr.

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A notarial contract of loan drawn up at Pathyris in 113 BC before the agoranomos Heliodoros. The priest Psenimouthis lends two brothers, Psenenouphis and Panobchounis sons of Portis, a sum of copper money interest-free, to be repaid in Pharmouthi, with a penalty of one and a half times and monthly interest if late.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 5, Choiak 11, [at Pathyris, before Helio]doros, agoranomos. Psenimouthis […], priest of Monos (?) […], has lent to Psenenouphis son of Portis and Panobchounis son of Portis, [the two Persians] of the epigone, [2 talents] 2,[300] drachmas [of copper], without interest. [This loan] the borrowers shall repay to Psenimouthis [in the month] Pharmouthi of year 5. [If they do not] repay within the [appointed] time, [let them pay] forthwith one and a half times the amount, and for the overdue [time interest] of 2 drachmas per mina each month. [The right of execution] shall belong to Psenimouthis [against the] borrowers [and against each one] of them, the two borrowers, and against whichever he chooses, and against all their property, exacting payment as if by a court judgment. I, Ammonios, agent of Heliodoros, have registered it. [verso] Repayment year 5. Loan […] [… 1 line lost …]

"Persians of the epigone" was a legal status category in Ptolemaic Egypt, often used for borrowers rather than indicating real ethnicity. The amount of the loan is largely restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 29. Dez. 113 v.Chr. · Pathyris

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