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Interest-free loan of bronze money from Apollonia to Sleis and others TM 257Pathyris (Pathyrites, Ägypten)7. Nov. 127 v.Chr.

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A notarial contract drawn up before the agoranomos at Pathyris recording an interest-free loan of 1 talent 4,000 bronze drachmas by Apollonia, wife of the cavalry officer Dryton, to Sleis, Harmais and their mother Tebos, repayable within five months. Late repayment carries a 50 percent penalty and interest, and the borrowers are mutually liable.

In English machine translation

[recto] [Year 44], Phaophi 15, at Pathyris, before Asklepiades, agoranomos. Apollonia daughter of Ptolemaios, Cyrenaean, with her guardian, her husband Dryton son of Pamphilos, Cretan, of the hipparchs over men in the reserve (epitagma), and of the diadochoi, [has lent] to Solon [also called Sl]eis son of Horos and Harmais son of Horos, Persians of the epigone, [and to Tebos] daughter of Phageris, Persian woman, with her guardian the aforementioned Sleis her son, 1 talent [4,000 drachmas] of bronze, [without interest], for five months from Phaophi to Mecheir 30 of year 44. The borrowers shall [repay] this loan to Apollonia [in the month of] Mecheir 30. If they do not repay within the [appointed] time, let them pay at once [one and a half times the amount] and for the time overdue interest at [2 drachmas] per mina each month. The borrowers themselves are sureties [for one another] for the payment of everything [written] in the loan. Apollonia shall have the right of execution against the borrowers, against each and every one of them and [against whichever she] chooses, and against all their property, as if by a court judgment. I, Areios, agent of Asklepiades, have registered it. [verso] Loan of Apollonia to Sleis and others, 1 talent 4,000 (drachmas) of bronze.

"Persians of the epigone" is a legal-status label common in Ptolemaic contracts, not an ethnic description. Apollonia is the wife of Dryton, whose family archive this belongs to.

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 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Nov. 127 v.Chr. · Pathyris (Pathyrites, Ägypten)

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