A contract of loan in which the Macedonian centurion Hipponikos lends wheat to Dionysios, his mother Senabellis and his wife Isidora, to be repaid with 50% interest (24 artabas in all) in Pauni. It was drawn up at Krokodilopolis-Akoris in the Hermopolite nome in January 105 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto, inner text]
In the reign of Cleopatra, goddess Euergetis also called Philometor, and Ptolemy also called Alexander, her son, god Philometor, year 12, which is also year 9, in the priesthood of King Ptolemy also called Alexander, god Philometor, of Alexander and the Savior Gods and the Sibling Gods and the Benefactor Gods and the Father-loving Gods and the Manifest Gods and the god Eupator and the god Philometor and the god Philopator and the god Euergetes and the Mother-loving Gods and the others who are (priests and priestesses) in Alexandria, on the 24th of the month Peritios, Choiak 24, in Krokodilopolis also called Akoris of the Mochites district, in the Hermopolite nome.
Hipponikos son of Ptolemaios, Macedonian, centurion, has lent to Dionysios son of Kephalas, Persian of the epigone, and to his mother Sarapias also called Senabellis daughter of Heliodoros, Persian, and to his wife Isidora daughter of Hermophilos, Persian, with their guardian the same Dionysios, 16 artabas of hard wheat, which they have had measured out from him from his house, at interest of one half, 8 artabas. The wheat and the interest, in all 24 artabas of wheat, the borrowers shall repay to Hipponikos or his agents in the month Loios, which is Pauni, of the aforementioned year, new, clean, unadulterated wheat, by the measure corresponding to the bronze standard and with a fair leveling rod, and they shall deliver it to the harbor at Akoris at their own expense, without lawsuit or judgment or any trickery. If they do not repay as written, they shall pay as the value of each artaba 3,000 bronze drachmas, and none the less […]
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[recto, outer text]
Year 12, which is also year 9, Choiak 24. Loan of Hipponikos to Dionysios and Senabellis and Isidora of 24 artabas of wheat; they shall repay in Pauni of the same year.
[…] keeper of the contract: Apollonios son of Polykrates.
[verso]
Hipponikos; Apollonios son of Agenor; Dionysios; Dionysios; […]; Ptolemaios son of Apollonios
Much of the left side is restored from the summary docket and standard formulas, including the amounts. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status designation of descendants of military settlers, not ethnic origin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prêt de blé). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.