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The end of a loan contract in which the borrower promises to repay the whole sum, with 3 artabas of wheat as interest, in the village in the month of Pauni from the harvest of the coming sixth indiction, guaranteed by all his property. The borrower, Aurelius Par[…] son of Ioannes, begins his signature. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 4th-7th century AD.
The phrase 'the price that will be determined' suggests the loan or its value was reckoned at a future price. The indiction is a 15-year fiscal cycle, so the sixth indiction cannot be fixed to a specific year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]ο… καὶ π[…]… φανησομένης τιμῆς καὶ λόγῳ τόκου αὐτοῦ σίτου μέτρῳ δικαίῳ ἀρταβῶν τριῶν σίτου ἀρτάβαι γ, τὴν δὲ τοῦ παντὸς ἀπόδοσιν σοι ποιήσομαι ἐν τῇ κώμῃ μηνὶ Παῦνι ἀπὸ καρπῶν τῆς εἰσιούσης ἕκτης ἰνδικτίωνος ἀνυπερθέτως ἐξ ὑπαρχόντων μου πάντων καὶ ἐπερω…
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