One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2821
Surety for the appearance of Timokles in a debt suit TM 2821Muchinaryo (Oxyrhynchites)4. Mai 264 v.Chr.
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A contract of surety from the Oxyrhynchite village of Mouchinaroo, dated 4 May 264 BC. Two military settlers guarantee that Timokles, sued by Apollonios over a debt of 300 drachmas plus 100 drachmas interest, will appear before the strategos Krisippos at Herakleopolis until judgment, on pain of paying the 400 drachmas themselves plus penalties.
In English machine translation
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and his son Ptolemy, year 22, when Pelops son of Alexander was priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods, and Mnesistrate daughter of Teisarchos was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, in the month Xandikos, Egyptian month Mecheir 14,
at Mouchinaroo in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Sureties for Timokles son of Simos, Thracian of the epigone:
Mnason son of Simos, Thracian of the epigone, Hegemon son of […]imos, Cretan of the epigone, on condition that they shall deliver him at Herakleopolis before Krisippos […] the strategos until judgment in the suit in which Apollonios has sued him on a contract, for a principal of 300 drachmas and interest of 100 drachmas. If they do not deliver him as written, let them pay the 400 drachmas and the tenth in addition and the costs, and let execution be with Apollonios or another of the assistants of Krisippos or of the praktor, according to the ordinance.
"Of the epigone" designates descendants of foreign military settlers in Ptolemaic Egypt. The "tenth in addition" (epidekata) is a statutory 10% penalty surcharge.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Surety). 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.hib.1.92
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