Fragments from the lower part of a Greek loan contract of the type witnessed by six persons, mentioning interest, the royal ordinance, a contract deposited with the contract-keeper Nikolaos, grain for rents, and a list of witnesses including military men. It dates to the 3rd century BC, from the Herakleopolite or Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
[fragment a]
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[…] […]ton
[…] to the aforementioned
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[fragment b]
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[…] …parchos (?)
[…] each
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[fragment c]
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[…] and interest
[…] according to the ordinance
[…] of this loan and
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[fragment d]
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[…] in the […]
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[…] shall make the execution […]
[…] according to the contract of […]
[…] which is deposited with the keeper of the contract Nikolaos […]
[…] all damage and […]
[…] the grain for the rents. Valid […]
[…] exacting in the same way. Witnesses: […]
[…] sojourner; Ergophilos son of Abiatas […]
[…] son of […]ylos, Cyrenaean; Epikrates […]
[…] private (soldier); Athenodoros […]
[…] Macedonian of the agema […]
The syngraphophylax was a private keeper with whom the original of a six-witness contract was deposited. The agema was an elite guard unit of the Ptolemaic army.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Unterer Teil einer Sechszeugenurkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.