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Loan of money by a Cyrenean of the epigone TM 2685Oxyrhynchites212 - 211 v.Chr.

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Fragmentary loan contract of money from the Oxyrhynchite nome, dated in year 11 of Ptolemy IV Philopator (212-211 BC). A Cyrenean of the epigone named […]oros son of Philippos lends a sum in cash to a man of Philon's unit at 2 drachmas per mina per month interest.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, gods Benefactors, year eleven, in the time of the priest […] of Alexander and the gods Saviours and the gods Brother-and-Sister and the gods Benefactors [Fragment B] and the gods Father-loving, when the basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos was Ptolemais daughter of Dionysios, in the month […] of the Oxyrhynchite nome. […]oros son of Philippos, Cyrenean of the epigone, lent [Fragment C] to […], one of the private soldiers (?) of Philon's unit, […] in coin, displayed openly before the witnesses written below, […] drachmas, […] at interest at the rate of 2 drachmas per mina each month.

"Of the epigone" designates descendants of military settlers not yet enrolled as cleruchs; the interest of 2 drachmas per mina monthly equals 24% a year, the standard Ptolemaic rate. "Idiotes" of Philon's unit likely means a private (non-officer) soldier.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gelddarlehen). 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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bgu.10.1963

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 212 - 211 v.Chr. · Oxyrhynchites

[FrA] Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ἑνδεκάτου ἐφʼ ἱερέως[…]Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Σωτήρων καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν [FrB] καὶ θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Πτολεμαίδος τῆς Διονυσίου μηνὸς […]τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ…