A loan contract from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, AD 46, in which Apynchis lends a sum of silver drachmas at 1% monthly interest to Panephrymmis son of Tesenouphis and a woman Ptou[…], who stand surety for each other, with repayment due in Thoth of the following year. It includes the borrowers' acknowledgment and a registration note from the local record office.
In English machine translation
[Fragment 1]
In the sixth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, in the month of Phamenoth […], […] at Soknopaiou Nesos in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. Apynchis son of Ne[…] […] son of Satabous, aged about fifty-[…], […] has lent to […] Panephrymmis son of Tesenouphis the younger […] aged about […]-four, with a scar on the left eyebrow, and to Ptou[…] daughter of Apynchis daughter of Satabous, Persian, aged about thirty-five, with a scar on the eyebrow […], [with her husband] Pane[…] as guardian, […] each acting as surety for the other for payment, of coined silver, as capital, [… drachmas], and they have received it from him immediately, by hand, out of his house, at interest of one drachma per mina each month; which we, the borrowers, will also repay […] to Apynchis in the month of Thoth of the coming seventh year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. If we do not repay as written, the borrowers shall forfeit […] the aforesaid [sum] plus one half, and the interest simply, with right of execution for Apynchis against the borrower and against all his property, as if by legal judgment, without any delay or evasion. […] The writer Herieus son of Herieus, aged about thirty-nine, with a scar on the left eyebrow.
We, Panephrymmis son of Tesenouphis the younger, Persian of the epigone, and Ptou[…] daughter of Apynchis daughter of Satabous, Persian, with my husband as guardian, acknowledge that we have the loan from Apynchis son of Ne[…] son of Satabous, the […] drachmas of coined silver capital, by hand, out of his house […]
[Fragment 2]
[…] loan […]
[…] Augustus […] Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator […]
[…] has been registered through the record office at Soknopaiou Nesos […]
[…]
The principal sum is lost. "Persian of the epigone" was a legal status designation, not an ethnic one, at this period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.