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Acknowledgement of a loan of seed wheat from a confiscated estate TM 30384Oxyrhynchosspätes III

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Two brothers, Aurelius Tourbon and another, living in a hamlet once belonging to priests, acknowledge to Aurelius Maximus, agent of an estate formerly owned by Ammonion and now confiscated by the imperial treasury, that they owe 47 artabas of seed wheat received over two years. They promise repayment in new clean wheat at the hamlet's threshing floor in Pauni. The document comes from Oxyrhynchus in the late 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

The Aurelii Tourbon and […]as, both sons of Ausir[…] (?), their mother being Sinthonis, from the village of […], residing in the hamlet formerly of the priests, to Aurelius Maximus son of Saras, agent of the estates formerly of Ammonion and now of the most sacred treasury, greeting. We acknowledge that we owe you the artabas which we received on account of seed: in the past year 5, from the produce of the preceding year 4, 29 artabas, and in the present year 6, from the produce of the past year 5, 18 artabas, together 47 artabas, on which we shall pay you the interest that is found to apply in the case of the other cultivators of the same hamlet; which we shall repay to you in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor of the hamlet, in new wheat, clean, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sieved, by the measure by which we also received it […] […]

This is a duplicate copy of the same contract; the end is lost. The 'diaphoron' is a surcharge or interest charge, set by the rate applied to the other cultivators of the hamlet.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of a Loan of Wheat for Sowing). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes III · Oxyrhynchos

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