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
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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