One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 61

Interest-free loan of copper money to a married couple TM 61Pathyris21. Okt. 127 v.Chr.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A notarial contract of loan drawn up before the agoranomos Asklepiades at Pathyris in 127 BC. Thoteus son of Kollouthos lends 5,600 copper drachmas without interest for three months to the married couple Totoes and Takmeis, with penalties of one and a half times the sum and monthly interest if they default.

In English machine translation

Year 44, Thoth 28, at Pathyris, before Asklepiades, agoranomos. Thoteus son of Kollouthos, Persian of the epigone, has lent to Totoes son of Pelaias, Persian of the epigone, and to Takmeis daughter of Patous, Persian woman, with her guardian, her husband Totoes, the aforementioned and co-borrower, 5,600 (drachmas) of copper, without interest, for three months. The borrowers shall repay this loan to Thoteus in the month of Choiak, day 30, of year 44. If they do not repay within the appointed time, they shall forthwith pay one and a half times the amount, and for the time overdue interest of 2 drachmas per mina each month. The borrowers themselves are sureties for one another for the payment of everything written in the loan. Thoteus shall have the right of execution against the borrowers, against each and every one of them and whichever he chooses, and against all their property, as if by legal judgment. I, Areios, have registered it.

"Persian of the epigone" was a legal-status designation in Ptolemaic Egypt, often used of borrowers, and does not indicate actual Persian ethnicity. The penalty of interest at 2 drachmas per mina monthly equals 24% a year, the standard legal rate.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.grenf.2.18

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. Okt. 127 v.Chr. · Pathyris

ἔτους μδ Θωὺθ κη ἐν Παθύρει ἐπʼ Ἀσκληπιάδου ἀγορανόμου. ἐδάνεισεν Θοτεὺς Κολλούθου Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς Τοτοῆι Πελαίου Πέρσῃ τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ Τακμήιτι Πατοῦτος Περσίνῃ, μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἑαυτῆς ἀνδρὸς Τοτοῆτος τοῦ προγεγραμμένου καὶ συνδεδανεισμένου, χαλκοῦ πεντακισχιλίας ἑξακοσίας …