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A loan agreement addressed to Protarchos, in which Apollonios and his wife Alexandra acknowledge receiving 100 drachmas of Ptolemaic silver from Ptolemaios at monthly interest. It dates to year 17 of Caesar (Augustus), from Alexandria.
Protarchos headed the Alexandrian court office to which such agreements (synchoreseis) were submitted. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status designation of the period with no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vertrag über Darlehn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[2] Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου Μακεδόνος καὶ παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Ἀγαθοκλέους Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ τὴς τούτου γυναικὸς Ἀλεξάνδρας τῆς Διονυσίου Περσίνης μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρός. συνχωροῦσιν Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρα ἔχειν παρὰ τοῦ Πτολεμαίου δάνειον διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴ…
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