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Loan of money from Satyros to Herakleides TM 3179unbekannt215 - 214 v.Chr.

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A Ptolemaic contract of a money loan in which Satyros, a man of the Epigone, lends a sum of coined money to Herakleides at 2 drachmas per mina per month, with a guarantor, six witnesses and a keeper of the contract. It dates to year 8 of Ptolemy IV Philopator, 215-214 BC.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, Gods Euergetai, year 8, when the priest of Alexander and the Gods Soteres and the Gods Adelphoi and the Gods Euergetai and the Gods Philopatores was Ptolemy son of Ptolemy son of Stasikrates, and the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos was Arsinoe daughter of Sosibios, in the month […] of the […]: Satyros son of […], of the Epigone, has lent to Herakleides son of […] […] of good, visible coinage […] five, at interest at the rate of 2 drachmas per mina each month, the interest falling due each month […], and let Herakleides repay the principal to Satyros in the month […] of year […]. If he does not repay as written, let Herakleides pay Satyros forthwith this loan increased by half, and the interest simple. Guarantor of the loan for payment: […] son of Herakleides, Thessalian, […] […] on behalf of Satyros. Witnesses: […], Thessalian; Dionysios, Cyrenean; […]; Tetraphernes […] […] son of […]tauros, Cretan, of the triakontarouros (?) [Keeper of the contract:] […]

The amount lent and the repayment month are lost; the interest rate of 2 drachmas per mina monthly (24% a year) is the standard Ptolemaic rate and is restored. The 'Epigone' was a status category for descendants of settlers, and the triakontarouros was a thirty-oared ship.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gelddarlehen). 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 · 215 - 214 v.Chr.

βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης Θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν. ἔτους ὀγδόου, ἐφʼ ἱερέως Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Στασικράτους Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Θεῶν Σωτήρων καὶ Θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν καὶ Θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν καὶ Θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων, κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Ἀρσινόης τῆς Σωσιβίου μηνὸς…