Contract for a Loan
Conclusion of a contract for the loan of 18 3/4 artabae of olyra from Zenodorus to Menonides. On the verso some possibly related lines.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 7825
Loan of olyra from Zenodoros to Menonides TM 7825Mummy A 9About 250 BC
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End of a loan contract in which Menonides, a Persian private person among the men of Zoilos, undertakes to repay 18 3/4 artabas of olyra to Zenodoros by the royal measure, with a penalty of 2 drachmas per artaba for default. The document was written for him by Archippos son of Philoxenos, and comes from mummy cartonnage of about 250 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]…
[…]
[…] of all by the royal measure; and if he does not repay, let him forfeit as the price of each artaba 2 drachmas, and let the right of execution belong to Zenodoros and to another on behalf of Zenodoros against Menonides, as for royal debts.
I, Archippos son of Philoxenos, Cyrenaean of the Epigone, wrote at the direction of Menonides.
I, Menonides, Persian, private person, of the men of Zoilos, ⟦…⟧ will repay 18 3/4 artabas of olyra according to this agreement.
[verso]
[… 1 line lost …]
of Menonides
18 3/4 artabas.
Olyra is a grain, probably emmer wheat. 'Persian' and 'of the Epigone' are Ptolemaic status designations rather than strict ethnic labels; the text was recovered from mummy cartonnage (Mummy A 9), so its place of writing is not recorded.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract for a Loan). 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.hib.1.124
[r] […]…αρμαρτι. […] […]πάντων μέτρωι βασιλικῶι, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῶι ἀποτεισάτω τιμὴν τῆς ἀρτάβης ἑκάστης δραχμὰς δύο , καὶ ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω Ζηνοδώρωι καὶ ἄλλωι ὑπὲρ Ζηνοδώρου παρὰ Μενωνίδου πρὸς βασιλικά. Ἄρχιππος Φιλοξένου Κυρηναῖος τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ἔγραψα συντάξαντος Μενωνίδου. Μενωνίδη…