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Loan of lentils and other produce from Aurelia Mesesis to Aurelia Charis TM 9530Philadelphia (Arsinoites)5. Dez. 264

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A handwritten acknowledgement of a loan in kind in which Aurelia Charis of Philadelphia confirms receiving produce, including 10 artabas of lentils, from Aurelia Mesesis, promising to repay it in Pauni of the same year. It is dated 5 December 264 in the reign of Gallienus, at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Aurelia Charis, daughter of Diogenes, her mother being Longina, from the village of Philadelphia, to Aurelia Mesesis, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from Isi[…] […] […] and 10 artabas of lentils […] by the four-choinix measure of the dromos, which I will also of necessity repay to you in the month of Pauni of the present year 12 without delay; and if I do not repay within the appointed term, you shall have the right of execution upon me and upon my property, as if by a court judgment. Let this handwritten contract be valid as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Aurelia Charis, about 27 years old, with a scar on the left shin. Year 12 of our lord Gallienus Augustus, Choiak 9.

The lines naming the lender's source and the first commodity are badly damaged. The 'measure of the dromos' was a standard grain measure, here of four choinikes.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Handschein über Naturaldarlehen). 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 · 5. Dez. 264 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλία Χάρις Διογένους μητρὸς Λογγίνας ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλαδελφείας Αὐρηλίᾳ Μεσήσι χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ εἰληφέναι παρὰ Ἰσι[…]…ανκαι …[…]…[…]α[…]τω καὶ φακοῦ ἀρτάβας δέκα[…]… μέτρῳ δρόμων τετραχοινίκῳ, ἃς καὶ ἐπάναγκον ἀποδώσω σοι ἐν μηνὶ Παῧνι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους ιβ ἀνυπερθέτως, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ…