A notarial contract registered at Pathyris in which Apollonia, wife of the cavalry officer Dryton, lends 35 artabas of wheat interest-free to the couple Apollonios alias Psennesis and Herais alias Tisris, repayable in Pachon. A docket on the back records the loan and its repayment date.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 39, Choiak 12, at Pathyris, before Sarapion, agoranomos. Apollonia daughter of Ptolemaios son of Hermokrates, Cyrenaean, with as her guardian her own husband Dryton son of Pamphilos, Cretan, of the hipparchy of the epitagma, on the men and diadochoi, has lent to Apollonios son of Apollodotos, also called Psennesis son of Harsiesis, Persian of the epigone, and to Herais daughter of Ptolemaios, also called Tisris daughter of Paous, Persian woman, with as her guardian her own husband Apollonios the aforesaid, 35 artabas of wheat, without interest. Let the borrowers repay this loan to Apollonia in the month Pachon of year 39, in new, clean, unadulterated wheat, delivered to her house at their own expense, by the measure by which they also received it, at the 29-choinix measure. If they do not repay within the appointed time, let them pay at once one and a half times the price prevailing in the market. The borrowers are sureties for one another for the payment of everything under the loan. Let Apollonia have the right of execution against both the borrowers and against each one of them and against whichever she chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment.
I, Areios, agent of Sarapion, have registered it.
[verso, 1]
Repayment in year 39.
[verso, 2]
Year 39, Choiak 12. Loan of Apollonia to Psennesis, 35 artabas of wheat, and Tisris his wife.
"Persian of the epigone" is a legal-ethnic status label, not a real origin; the 1.5-fold penalty (hemiolion) was standard in Ptolemaic loans and often concealed interest in 'interest-free' contracts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek 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.