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Loan of wheat by Pasion alias Pasis to Dionysios alias Plenis and his family TM 3109Hermopolis22. Dez. 104 v.Chr.

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A loan contract drawn up at Hermopolis in December 104 BC, in which Pasion alias Pasis, a cavalry or military officer at Akoris, lends 54 artabas of wheat to Dionysios alias Plenis, his wife Isidora and his mother Sarapias. With 50% interest they must repay 81 artabas in Pauni, delivered to the harbour at Akoris, on pain of 3,000 bronze drachmas per artaba.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 14, which is also year 11, Choiak 6, at Hermopolis in the Thebaid. Pasion also called Pasis, son of Petenephotes, Persian, hekatontarch of the men of Akoris in the command (hegemonia) of Asklepiades, has lent to Dionysios also called Plenis, son of Kephalas, Persian of the epigone, and to his wife Isidora also called Tasis, daughter of Hermophilos also called Pachois, and to the mother of the aforementioned Dionysios, Sarapias also called Senabelleis, daughter of Heliodoros also called Herieus, both Persian women, with as their guardian (kyrios) the same Dionysios, who is also a co-borrower, 54 artabas of solid wheat, which they have had measured out from him, as this contract is being registered, with interest at one half, 27 artabas of wheat. The wheat and the interest, in all 81 artabas of solid wheat, the borrowers shall repay to Pasion or his representatives in the month Loios, which is Pauni, of the aforesaid year, without lawsuit or judgment or any fraud, in new, solid, 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 to Pasion or his representatives. If they do not repay as written, the borrowers shall forfeit to Pasion or his representatives the value of each artaba at 3,000 bronze drachmas. And Pasion and his representatives shall have the right of execution for what is in the contract upon the borrowers themselves, both upon one and upon whichever of them he chooses, and upon all their property, as if by a court judgment. The borrowers themselves are sureties for one another for payment of the wheat or the aforesaid value. This contract is valid. [verso] Loan of Pasion also called Pasis to Dionysios also called Plenis [and others], 81 artabas of solid wheat. [verso, second hand] […] Hippon[…] […]

The double regnal year (14 = 11) reflects the joint reign of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy X. 'Persian of the epigone' was a Ptolemaic legal status label, not an ethnic description.

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 · 22. Dez. 104 v.Chr. · Hermopolis

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