One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22629
Acknowledgment of a loan of two talents with interest TM 22629Fundort: Kysis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten); Schreibort: Dios Polis (Hiou)18. Febr. 308
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A loan acknowledgment in which Aurelius Souris of the village of Kysis in the Great Oasis confirms he has borrowed 2 silver talents, to be repaid with interest, from Aurelius Psentphthous, who lived in the necropolis of Ptytis outside Diospolis. It is dated 18 February 308, and a scribe signed for the illiterate borrower.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Aurelius Souris, son of Petechon, his mother being Tbekis, from the village of Kysis in the city of the Ibitai, aged about 48, with a scar on the left foot, to Aurelius Psentphthous, son of Petenephotes, his mother being Oserinis, extramural resident of Diospolis, living in the necropolis of Ptytis, greetings.
I acknowledge that I have received from you, for my own use, two talents of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 2 talents, which I will repay to you together with the interest accumulated until repayment; and if I do not repay, you shall have the right of execution against all my resources. The document is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
In the consulship of our lords Diocletian, father of the Augusti, for the 10th time, and Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus, for the 7th time, on the 12th day before the Kalends of March.
I, Aurelius Souris, the aforesaid, have received the aforesaid two talents and will repay them with interest as stated above. I, Aurelius Philemon, son of Agathos Daimon, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
[verso]
From Psentphous.
The lender belongs to the archive of necropolis workers (gravediggers) of the Great Oasis; the term translated 'extramural resident' (exopylites) means one living outside the town gate. The consular numbers are restored in the edition.
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.
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