Loan [VI AD]
Loan of ten and a third solidi of gold to be repaid in wine
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36174
Loan of gold solidi repayable in wine, from Great Tarouthinos TM 36174Oxyrhynchos500 CE – 599 CE
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A loan contract in which a man from the hamlet of Great Tarouthinos acknowledges receiving 10 1/3 gold solidi and undertakes to repay them in wine, seven solidi at a fixed rate of 100 measures per solidus and the rest at the vintage price. He guarantees the wine's quality until the end of Tybi. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
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I acknowledge that I have received from you here and now ten and one third solidi of gold on the private standard, total 10 1/3 gold solidi on the private standard, and I acknowledge that I will deliver these to you in wine as follows: seven solidi before the time of the vintage at the rate of 100 five-sextarius measures per solidus, and the other three and one third at the price that will prevail at the vintage in the month of Mesore of the present ninth indiction, of wine from the pressing of the tenth indiction, God willing, without delay, you providing the empty jars, I being responsible also for the good quality of the wine until the end of the month of Tybi; and I will also give for the expense of the vintage […]
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[verso]
[…] from the hamlet of Great Tarouthinos, 10 1/3 gold solidi on the private standard.
This is in effect an advance sale of wine: money paid now against future delivery. The 'private standard' was a weighing standard for gold coin distinct from the public one.'}
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan of Money with Repayment in Kind). 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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