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Interest-free loan of castor-oil seed at Pathyris TM 5Pathyris

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A notarial loan contract drawn up at the agoranomos office in Pathyris: Horos son of Nechoutes lends Horos son of Lamenthis a small quantity of castor-oil seed without interest, to be repaid in Pachon, with a penalty of one and a half times the market value if late.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 12, also year 9, Phaophi […], at Pathyris, before Hermias, deputy of Paniskos the agoranomos. Horos son of Nechoutes, Persian of the epigone, has lent to Horos son of Lamenthis, Persian of the epigone, 1 1/12 artabas of castor-oil seed (?), without interest, by his own receiving measure. Let the borrower repay this loan to Horos in the month of Pachon of the aforementioned year. If he does not repay within the fixed time, let him pay forthwith one and a half times the price that will prevail in the market. And let Horos have the right of execution upon the borrower and upon all his property, exacting payment as if by a court judgment. I, Hermias, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it. [verso] Loan to Horos son of Lamenthis, 1 1/12 artabas of castor-oil seed.

The double regnal year (12 = 9) points to a joint reign in the late 2nd or early 1st century BC. Kroton is the castor-oil plant (kiki); 'Persian of the epigone' is a fiscal-legal status designation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan, at the Office of the Agoranomus). 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 · Pathyris

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