One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35513
Loan of gold solidi from Menodoros to the chancellor Georgios TM 35513Arsinoiton Polis (?)ca. 546
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Acknowledgement of debt in which Georgios, a chancellor and son of the notary Sabinnianos, confirms receipt of a loan of 3 gold solidi less 5 1/4 carats from Menodoros, a former primicerius of the Leontoklibanarii regiment, promising repayment with interest. It dates to about AD 546, probably from Arsinoe in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
† I, Georgios, chancellor (kankellarios), son of Sabinnianos, notary, have received from the lord Menodoros, former primicerius of the devoted Leontoklibanarii,
3 gold solidi less 5 1/4 carats, as capital,
on the Alexandrian standard, gold solidi 3 less 5 1/4 carats, which have also been spent for my own
and necessary need […] […] which I shall repay to you together with the
[…] the lawful (interest?) each time until repayment […]
[…]
[…] by my hand, of Menas son of
[…] likewise I have from your
[…] gold solidus
[…]
The Leontoklibanarii were a late Roman military unit; a primicerius was a senior officer. The interest clause and the closing lines, apparently a second acknowledgement by Menas, are badly damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schuldschein (SPP III2 145 + CPR XXIV 19)). 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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