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Loan of barley by two villagers of Senepta from a councillor of Oxyrhynchus TM 23662Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. 258 - 24. Juni 259

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A loan contract in which two villagers of Senepta, Horos and Asklas, acknowledge receiving 5 artabas of barley from Septimius Aurelius Eudaimon, gymnasiarch and councillor of Oxyrhynchus. They promise to repay it with one-third interest by the end of Pauni in year 6 of Valerian and Gallienus (AD 258/259), with a penalty of one half if late.

In English machine translation

Aurelii Horos son of Paesis, his mother being Techosis, and Asklas son of Apollonios, his mother being Taaphynchis, both from the village of Senepta, to Septimius Aurelius Eudaimon son of Serenos, gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. We have received from you 5 artabas of barley of the produce of the past year, which we will repay to you with interest at one third within the 30th of Pauni of the present year 6, at the threshing floor of the same village of Senepta, new, clean, unadulterated, free of clods, sieved and well trodden, by the tenth-measure by which we also received it from those measuring for you, with the interest. If we do not repay you within the aforesaid term, we will pay you with the addition of one half […] time. This handwritten contract, written in duplicate, is valid wherever it is produced and for anyone who produces it on your behalf, the right of execution being yours against us, who are mutually guarantors for payment, and against whichever of us you choose, and against all our property; and having been asked by you, we have agreed. Year 6 of the Emperors Caesars Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, and Publius Licinius Cornelius Saloninus Valerianus the most illustrious […] [margin] […]

Interest 'from a third' (ek tritou) means repayment of the capital plus one third; the 'tenth-measure' is a specific standard measure for grain.

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 Barley). 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.oxy.64.4439

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. 258 - 24. Juni 259 · Oxyrhynchos

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