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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

[recto] Aurelius Pemes son of Patas, his mother being Tanouphis, from the village of Karanis, aged about 45, with a scar on the right shin, to Antonius Sarapammon, gymnasiarch, councillor, former strategos, of the city of the Arsinoites, greetings. I acknowledge by this document that I have received from you from hand to hand ten talents and three thousand drachmas of silver, total 10 talents 3,000 drachmas, as a loan for one month from the present day, which I shall of necessity repay to you on the 15th of the coming month of Thoth without interest and without delay; and if I do not repay by the appointed date, the interest for the further time shall follow upon me, and you, Sarapammon, shall have the right of execution upon demand both against me, Pemes, who make this acknowledgement, and against all my property, as if by legal judgement. The document, written in a single copy, shall be valid, and having been asked the formal question I have given my assent. In the consulship of our lords Constantine Augustus for the 7th time and Constantius the most illustrious Caesar for the 1st time, Mesore 20. I, Aurelius Pemes, have received the ten talents and three thousand drachmas of silver and I shall repay them in full on the appointed date, as stated above. I, Aurelius Serenos son of Heron, wrote on his behalf, as he is illiterate. [verso] [Note of hand of Pemes] from Karanis […]

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · August 13, 326 CE · From Karanis

[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…