Interest-free loan of money from Antonius Sarapammon to Aurelius Pemes TM 44548From KaranisAugust 13, 326 CE
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A short-term, interest-free loan contract in which Aurelius Pemes of Karanis acknowledges receiving 10 talents 3,000 drachmas of silver from Antonius Sarapammon, a city councillor and former official of Arsinoe, to be repaid on Thoth 15. It was written at Karanis on 13 August 326, with a scribe signing for the illiterate borrower.
In English machine translation
Interest is charged only if repayment is late, a common way of penalising default. The large sum in talents reflects the heavy inflation of the 4th century.
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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.nyu.2.23
[r] Αὐρήλιος Πεμὲς Πατᾶ μητρὸς Τανούφεως ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος ὡς ἐτῶν με οὐλὴ ἀντικνημίῳ δεξιῷ Ἀντωνίῳ Σαραπάμμωνι γυμνασιαρχ βουλευτῇ ἀπὸ στρατηγιῶν Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ κατὰ τόδε τὸ γραμματεῖον ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἀργυρίου τάλαντα δέκα καὶ δραχμὰς τρισχιλ…