Loan of wheat by novation of earlier debts, repayable at Akoris TM 3111Hermopolis113 - 112 v.Chr.

[Year 5, …, at Hermopolis] [in the Thebaid. Dioskourides …], Macedonian, […] has lent [to Dionysios son of Kephalas], Persian of the epigone, [and to] his mother Demetria also called Senabellis, daughter of Heliodoros also called Herieus, Persian woman, with her guardian Dionysios the aforementioned, 142 [artabas] of solid wheat, which the borrowers owed in addition to Dioskourides from contracts concluded with him, [which are cancelled] together with this contract. The borrowers shall repay the wheat without interest to Dioskourides or to his agents in the month [Loios, which] is Pauni of the fifth year, solid wheat, [new], clean, unadulterated, by the measure tested against 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 Dioskourides or to] his agents as the value [of each artaba] 3,000 [bronze] drachmas; [and the right of execution shall belong] to Dioskourides and [to his agents for what is due under] the contract, both against [the borrowers themselves], against one or [both, and against whichever] of them he chooses, and against all their property, [as if by] a court judgment. The borrowers themselves are mutual guarantors for repayment of the wheat or of the [written] value. This contract shall be valid. ⟦… …⟧