A loan contract in which Aurelia Tamounis of the village of Senbeichis acknowledges receiving 4 1/2 artabas of aracus (a legume) and another crop, with interest included, from Aurelia Isidora also called Eudaimonis of Antinoopolis, to be repaid in Epeiph. It was written on her behalf by Aurelius Horigenes on 15 January 314.
In English machine translation
Aurelia Tamounis daughter of Silvanus, her mother being Sarapias, aged about 48, with a scar on the side of the right shin, from the village of Senbeichis,
to Aurelia Isidora also called Eudaimonis, of the most splendid city of the Antinoites, greetings.
I acknowledge that I have received by measure from you, from hand to hand out of your house, a loan at interest, of principal with interest, of aracus 3 artabas and of […] 1 1/2 artabas […], of both kinds I have received by measure in all 4 1/2 artabas. I will measure out the same back to you by your own measure in the month of Epeiph of the consulship that will be happily announced, without delay, you having the right of execution against me and against all my property, as if by legal judgment. This document, which I have issued to you in a single copy for security, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
In the year after the 3rd consulship of our masters Constantine and Licinius Augusti, Tybi 20.
(2nd hand) I, Aurelia Tamounis daughter of Silvanus, have received by measure of both kinds 4 1/2 artabas and will measure them back as stated above. I, Aurelius Horigenes son of Ammonios, wrote on her behalf because she does not know letters.
Aracus is a leguminous fodder or vetch crop; the name of the second crop is lost. Such 'loans' with interest included in the principal often concealed advance sales of produce.
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.