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Novation of a wheat loan from Hermias to Dionysios TM 3110Hermopolis6. Okt. 116 v.Chr.

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A loan contract from Hermopolis in 116 BC in which Hermias, a 'Persian' of the cavalry mercenaries' sons, lends Dionysios son of Kephalas 150 artabas of wheat. The new contract replaces an earlier loan Dionysios still owed; repayment is due in Pauni at the harbour of Akoris, with a penalty of 3,000 bronze drachmas per artaba.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 2, month of Dios 16, Thoth 16, at Hermopolis in the Thebaid. Hermias son of […], Persian, of those registered among the sons of the mercenary cavalrymen, has lent to Dionysios son of Kephalas, Persian of the epigone, 150 artabas of hard wheat. This is the loan which Dionysios still owes to Hermias from a loan contract, which has been cancelled for him together with the referral of this contract. Dionysios shall repay the wheat without interest to Hermias or to his agents in the month of Loios, which is Pauni of the second year, in hard wheat, new, clean, unadulterated, by the measure corresponding to the bronze standard, and he shall deliver it to the harbour at Akoris at his own expense. If he does not repay as written, Dionysios shall pay to Hermias or to his agents as the value of each artaba 3,000 bronze drachmas. And Hermias and his agents shall have the right of execution for everything under the contract against Dionysios himself and against all his property, as if by a court judgement. This contract shall be valid. [verso] [Loan to Dionysios] from Hermias, 150 artabas of wheat.

The document is a novation: an outstanding earlier debt is recast as a new interest-free loan and the old contract cancelled. 'Persian of the epigone' was a legal-ethnic status designation, not necessarily real Persian origin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Novation). 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 · 6. Okt. 116 v.Chr. · Hermopolis

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