Fragmentary loan contract in which two or more borrowers, including a woman acting with her guardian, receive a loan of wheat from Zenodoros, to be repaid in new clean wheat in the month Apellaios of year 53, with the usual penalty and execution clauses. It dates to late 118 BC, in the reign of Ptolemy VIII.
In English machine translation
[Fr1]
[...]
...maieus (?) of those from [...]
...seos and Sem[...] [with]
her guardian [...]
... to both [...]
[...] artabas of wheat [...] [interest]
of one half [...] [This loan]
let [the borrowers] repay [to Zeno]doros in the month Ap[ellaios] [...]
of the same year 53 [...]
new wheat, clean, unadulterated, [by the measure with which]
they themselves also received it [...]
[...] the one designated (?) [...]
at their own expense. [If they do not make the repayment within the appointed time,]
let them pay [to Zenodoros] [...]
[...]
[Fr2]
[...]
[and let] Zenodoros [have the right of execution against the borrowers and against] each and every one [of them and against whichever]
[he chooses, and] against all their property,
[exacting payment] as [if by legal judgment].
Hermias and Ap[ollonios, we have registered (this)].
Year 53, Hathyr 1(?) [...]
Much of the formula is restored by the editor from standard Ptolemaic loan contracts. The closing names are probably the officials or agents who registered the contract.</br>
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.