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Fragment of a law on the drafting and sealing of loan contracts TM 2698Alexandria (?)spätes III v.Chr.

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Fragment of a Ptolemaic law regulating loan contracts, prescribing how lenders and borrowers must be identified (soldiers by home town, unit and allowances; citizens by father and deme; others by father, home town and class) and who must seal the document. It dates to the late 3rd century BC and probably comes from Alexandria.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] [...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] of the contract. The lenders and the borrowers shall be written into the contract: those enrolled in the military shall register their home towns and the units to which they belong and whatever pay allowances they have; citizens shall register their fathers and their demes, and if they are also in the military, their units and their allowances as well; all others shall register their fathers and their home towns and the class to which they belong. The lenders and the borrowers and the guarantors and the witnesses shall seal [...] the contract. One of the [...] witnesses shall keep [...] If anyone lends under compulsion [...], let him seal the contract in accordance with what has been written [...] seal [...] ... [...] [... lines lost ...]

The word translated 'allowances' (epiphora) refers to soldiers' supplementary pay or rations. 'Class' (genos) refers to the official status category under which non-citizens were registered.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Gesetzes). 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.14.2367

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes III v.Chr. · Alexandria (?)

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