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Deposit of 176 silver drachmas made through a bank TM 9302Arsinoites12. Dez. 151

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A bank document recording a deposit contract: Demarion lends 176 silver drachmas as a deposit to Euporous, whose brother Herakleides acts as her guardian and surety, repayable on demand. Drawn up through the bank of Apollonios at the Agora in the Arsinoite nome, December AD 151.

In English machine translation

Year fifteen of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month of Hadrianos 15, through the bank of Apollonios at the Agora. Demarion daughter of Petermouthion, with her guardian, her relative Ptolemaios son of Aphrodeisios, to Euporous daughter of Ptolemaios son of Mysthes, about 45 years old, with a scar on the left eyebrow, with her guardian and surety for payment, her brother Herakleides, about 40 years old, with a scar on the left eyebrow, both from the quarter of the Sacred Gate: that Euporous has received from Demarion as a deposit, free of all risk and not subject to any deduction, 176 drachmas of silver, total 176 silver drachmas, which Euporous will also repay whenever Demarion chooses […] […]

A 'deposit' (parathēkē) of this kind often served as a disguised interest-free or concealed loan, repayable on demand. The end of the document is lost.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 12. Dez. 151 · Arsinoites

ἔτους πεντεκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς μηνὸς Ἁδριανοῦ ιε. διὰ τῆς Ἀπολλωνίου τραπέζης Ἀγορᾶς. Δημάριον Πετερμουθίωνος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ συνγενοῦς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ἀφροδεισίου Εὐποροῦτι Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Μύσθου, ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα…