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Loan of wheat with repayment at the harbour of Akoris TM 3113Hermopolites, Ägypten107 v.Chr.

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A note of hand in which a man, son of Kephalas, acknowledges a loan of 70 artabas of wheat with 50% interest, promising to repay 105 artabas in the month of Epeiph and deliver them to the harbour at Akoris, with a penalty of 2,000 bronze drachmas per artaba for default. It was drawn up at Tenis in the Hermopolite nome in 107 BC.

In English machine translation

[…] alias […]es son of Kephalas, to […], greetings. I acknowledge that I have from you 70 artabas of hard wheat, which I have had measured out to me by you, with interest at one half, 35 artabas of wheat; the wheat and the interest, in all 105 artabas of wheat, I will repay to you or to your agents in the month of Epeiph of the present year 8, hard wheat, new, clean, unadulterated, by the measure calibrated to the bronze standard, and I will deliver it to the harbour at Akoris at my own expense. If I do not repay as written, I will pay you for each artaba 2,000 bronze drachmas, the right of execution being as if by a court judgment. This note of hand shall be valid for anyone who presents it and wherever it is presented. Year 8 […], in the village of Tenis in the Mochites (toparchy). Registered through Theon.

Many figures (70, 35, 105 artabas; 2,000 drachmas) are restored by the editor, though they are consistent with the 'one and a half' interest rate. The 'hemiolion' interest of 50% was customary for Ptolemaic grain loans.

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 · 107 v.Chr. · Hermopolites, Ägypten

[…]ὁ καὶ[…]…ης Κεφαλᾶτος […] χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ πυροῦ στερεοῦ ἀρτάβας ἑβδομήκοντα , ἃς μεμέτρημαι παρὰ σοῦ τόκων ἡμιολίων πυροῦ ἀρτάβαις τριάκοντα πέντε , τὸν δὲ πυρὸν καὶ τὸν τόκον, τὰς πάσας πυρῶν ἀρτάβας ε῾κατὸν πέντε , ἀποτείσω σοι ἢ τοῖς παρὰ σοῦ ἐν τῶι Ἐπεὶφ μη…