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Loan of 15 artabas of wheat by Aurelius Calpurnius TM 21950Oxyrhynchos17. Okt. 252

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The end of a loan contract in which Aurelius Calpurnius acknowledges receiving 15 artabas of wheat and promises to repay it in new, clean wheat in the month of Pauni, with a penalty if late. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in October 252, under the emperors Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] [I will repay in the month of Pau]ni of the current [third] year, in new wheat, clean, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sieved, by the measure […] at ten per cent, without delay. Otherwise I will pay you for the overdue period the value plus one third, the right of execution lying against me and against all my property. This document, written in duplicate, 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. Year 3 of the Imperatores Caesares Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus and Gaius Vibius Afinius Gallus Veldumianus Volusianus, Pii Felices Augusti, Phaophi 20. I, Aurelius Calpurnius, have received and had measured out to me the 15 artabas of wheat and I will repay them at the stated date, and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent.

This is a duplicate copy of the contract; the opening with the lender's name is lost. The phrase 'at ten per cent' (pros hekatostas deka) seems to refer to the measure used rather than interest, and its exact meaning is uncertain.

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 Wheat). 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 · 17. Okt. 252 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]ἀποδώσω ἐν μηνὶ Παῦνι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος τρίτου ἔτους πυροῦ νέου καθαροῦ ἀδόλου ἀβώλου ἀκρίθου κεκοσκινευμένου μέτρῳ πρὸς ἑκατοστὰς δέκα ἀνυπερθέτως. εἰ δὲ μή, ἐκτείσω σοι τοῦ ὑπερπεσόντος χρόνου διάφορον ἐκ τρίτου, γεινομένης τῆς πράξεως παρά τε ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν …