One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25857

Loan of money at interest TM 25857unbekanntI - II (?)

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Fragment of a loan contract in which the borrower acknowledges receiving a sum of silver drachmas, ending in forty, at the usual interest of one drachma per mina per month from Thoth. The borrower promises to repay capital and interest in Pauni of the coming seventh year. It dates roughly to the 1st-2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] drachmas of silver [… two/three hundred (?)] forty [as capital], at interest of one drachma per mina each month from Thoth; and I will repay the [capital] together with the interest [in the month of] Pauni of the coming seventh year, as stated above. I have written this without erasure or insertion […]

Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals 12 percent a year, the standard rate in Roman Egypt. The closing clause, 'without erasure or insertion', guarantees the text was not altered.

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 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.

p.harr.1.84

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · I - II (?)

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