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Loan of silver drachmas at interest from Pais son of Nektnephis TM 22866unbekannt28 - 29

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Fragment of a loan contract in which borrowers acknowledge receiving 593 silver drachmas from Pais son of Nektnephis, at interest of 1 1/2 drachmas per mina per month, repayable in Mecheir of Tiberius' 16th year. Scribes sign for the illiterate parties, and the document is dated to Tiberius' 15th year (AD 28-29).

In English machine translation

[...] [...] to have, Tatheon (?), from Pais son of Nektnephis, [by] hand out of the house, as principal, 593 drachmas of coined silver, at interest of 1 1/2 drachmas per mina each month, which we will also repay in the month of Mecheir of the coming sixteenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, and whenever you wish to recover them from me, as is also written above. Herieus son of Herieus [...] as aforesaid. [...] Herieus, I have written on their behalf because they do not know letters. [...]pais son of Nektnephis: I have lent 533 (?) drachmas of silver, as aforesaid. Nerse[...] son of [...]rsonsis wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters. Year 15 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus [...]

The principal is given as 593 drachmas in the body but 533 in the lender's subscription, a discrepancy in the text itself. An interest of 1 1/2 drachmas per mina per month equals 18 percent per year.

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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p.lond.3.1273

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28 - 29

[… ? lines lost …] […]αι ἔχειν τὸν Ταθηων παρὰ Πάιτος Νεκτνῆφις διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου ἐπισήμου κεφαλαίουνομίσματος δραχμὰς πεντακοσίας ἐνενήκοντα τρεῖς τόκῳ ὡς ἐκ δραχμῆς μιᾶς τριωβόλου τῇ μνᾷ τὸν μῆνα ἕκαστον ἃς καὶ ἀποδώσομεν ἐν μηνὶ Μεχὴρ τοῦ εἰσίοντος ἑκκαιδεκάτου ἔτου…