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Loan of barley from a primicerius of the Numidae Iustiniani TM 35964Hermopolis537 - 538 (?)

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A loan contract from Hermopolis in which a borrower acknowledges receiving barley, including one-sixth interest totalling 21 artabas, from Flavius, primicerius of the unit of the Numidian Justinians, and promises to repay it in the month of Epeiph of the coming second indiction, delivered to the lender's house.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] […] […] signing slowly (?), from the city of the Hermopolites, to Flavius […] the most devoted primicerius […] of the most devoted […] of the Numidian Justinians, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and have had measured out to me from you […] as principal together with interest of one sixth, of barley 21 artabas, total 21 artabas of barley, which I am ready to repay to you in the month of Epeiph of the coming, God willing, second indiction, without delay or dispute or judgment or lawsuit, in new, clean, sieved barley by the measure with which I too received it […] […] this barley to your house in the same city with my own animals, where I also received it, all my present and future property being pledged to you for this document […] of goods as if by legal judgment. This document is valid and secure, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Aurelius […] the aforesaid, I agree. [… ? lines lost …]

The Numidae Iustiniani were a military unit stationed at Hermopolis; a primicerius was a senior officer. 'Signing slowly' describes a borrower of limited literacy.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag über Gerste). 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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bgu.12.2197

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 537 - 538 (?) · Hermopolis

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