Loan of money
Fragment of an homologia where two joint debtors acknowledge a debt of 280 drachmae. The papyrus is incomplete on the left and at the foot.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25718
Acknowledgment of a loan of 280 drachmas by two mutual sureties TM 25718Tebtynis? (Arsinoites)End of 1st century A.D.
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Fragment of a loan contract in which two men, aged about 55 and 42 and each standing surety for the other, acknowledge receiving a loan of 280 silver drachmas and undertake to repay it. It dates to the late 1st century AD and probably comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[…] Augustus, on the 10th of the month Neos Sebastos.
Acknowledge Pa[…]…
[…] aged about 55, a scar on the thumb
[…] aged about 42, a scar on a finger
[…] the two, sureties for each other for payment
[…] a scar on the little finger of the left hand
[…] a loan of coined silver, capital
[280 drachmas] […] and the acknowledging parties shall necessarily repay [the loan of coined silver, capital] 280 drachmas
[…] of the 8th year of Imperator Caesar
[…]
Neos Sebastos is an honorific Roman-period month name corresponding to Hathyr. The repayment date falls in an emperor's 8th regnal year, but the emperor's name is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prêt d’argent). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.fouad.1.50
[…]Σεβαστοῦ, μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ δεκάτῃ. ὁμολογοῦσιν Πα[…]…ντως […]ὡς ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα πέντε οὐλὴ ἀντίχειρι […] ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα δύο οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ […]…ς οἱ δύο ἀλλήλων ἔνγυοι εἰς ἔκτισιν […] οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ μικρῷ χειρὸς ἀριστερᾶς […]…χρῆσιν ἀργυρίου ἐπισήμου κεφαλαίου δραχμὰς διακ…