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A handwritten loan contract (cheirographon) in which a citizen of Antinoopolis acknowledges receiving a loan of 440 silver drachmas at 1 percent monthly interest from another Antinoite, promising repayment and granting the right of execution on his property. It dates to the reign of Septimius Severus, at the end of the 2nd century AD, probably in the Arsinoite nome.
Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals the standard 12 percent a year. The reading 'Chairas' and the restored phrase about erasure and addition are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Cheirographischer Darlehensvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]ου τοῦ καὶ Χαιραίου Ἀντινοέως […]ωνίῳ Ἡρα…… Ἀντινοέως χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς τετρακοσίας τεσσαράκοντα τόκου δραχμιαίου τῇ μνᾷ τὸν μῆνα ἕκαστον ἃς καὶ ἀποδώσω σοὶ ἐν μηνὶ […]ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῷ, ἔσται σοὶ ἡ πρᾶξις ἔκ τε ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων μου πάντω…
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