Loan [November 29, 225 AD]
Loan of two artabas of wheat with a yield of fifty percent; the borrower is Aurelius Areios
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22272
Loan of wheat to Aurelius Areios son of Sarapion TM 22272Oxyrhynchos (?)225 CE
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End of a loan contract in which Aurelius Areios son of Sarapion acknowledges receiving 2 artabas of wheat and undertakes to repay 3 artabas, including 1 artaba of interest. It is dated 29 November AD 225, probably at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
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[…] The contract, written in two copies, is valid wherever it is produced
and for anyone who produces it on your behalf. And to the question whether these things are rightly and properly
done, having been asked by you, I gave my assent. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Marcus
Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius
Felix Augustus, Choiak 3.
I, Aurelius
Areios son of Sarapion, have had measured out to me the 2 artabas of wheat
and I will pay 1 artaba as interest,
and the total of 3 artabas of wheat
I will repay as aforesaid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent […]
[…]
The beginning, with the lender's name and the main clauses, is lost; the surviving part has the closing clauses and the borrower's signed acknowledgement. The interest of 1 artaba on 2 is a 50 percent yield, typical for loans in kind; the word translated 'interest' (diaphoron) literally means 'the difference'.
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.
p.col.10.277
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