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Loan of wheat from Adymos to Dionysios and his mother Sarapias TM 3107Hermopolis19. Dez. 108 v.Chr.

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A loan contract written at Hermopolis in December 108 BC, in which Adymos, a Macedonian cleruch, lends 150 artabas of wheat at 50 percent interest to Dionysios and his mother Sarapias. They must repay 225 artabas in Pauni, delivered to the harbour at Akoris, or pay 3,000 bronze drachmas per artaba.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 10, month of Peritios 2, Choiak 2, at Hermopolis in the Thebaid. Adymos son of Ptolemaios, Macedonian, of the cleruchs registered at Kleopatra, has lent to Dionysios son of Kephalas, Persian of the epigone, and to his mother Sarapias daughter of Heliodoros, Persian woman, with as her guardian her son Dionysios the aforementioned, 150 artabas of solid wheat, which they have had measured out from him, with interest at one half, 75 artabas of wheat. The wheat and the interest, in all 225 artabas of solid wheat, the borrowers shall repay to Adymos or to his agents in the month of Loios, which is Pauni of the same year, in new, clean, unadulterated wheat, by the measure that corresponds to the bronze standard, and they shall deliver it to the harbour at Akoris at their own expense. If they do not repay as written, the borrowers shall pay to Adymos or to his agents as the price of each artaba 3,000 bronze drachmas. And Adymos and his agents shall have the right of execution for the terms of the contract upon the borrowers, upon one or both or whichever of them he chooses, and upon all their property, as if by a court judgment. The borrowers themselves are mutual sureties for each other for payment of the wheat or of the stated price. This contract shall be valid. [verso] Loan of Adymos to Dionysios and Sarapias, [225 artabas of solid wheat].

'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status label common in Ptolemaic contracts, not a literal ethnicity. The total of 225 artabas and repayment month in lines 10-12 are restored.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Dez. 108 v.Chr. · Hermopolis

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