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Loan of money with house sale as security TM 9726Nilopolis bzw. Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)29. Okt. 45

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A loan contract drawn up at Neilopolis in the Arsinoite nome in the sixth year of Claudius, in which Apynchis lends a sum of Ptolemaic drachmas at monthly interest to Herieus son of Ptolemaios, a Persian of the Epigone, to be repaid in Phamenoth of the following year. The full record describes it as a loan secured by a sale of a house.

In English machine translation

[1] [… 17 lines lost …] [2] In the sixth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Pauni 21 (?) [or] Dystros, at Neilopolis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Apynchis, about thirty years old, with a scar on the left forearm (?), has lent to Herieus son of Ptolemaios, Persian of the Epigone, about thirty years old, with a scar on the middle of the left forearm; he has received from him immediately, by hand, out of the house, as principal, 100 (?) drachmas of Ptolemaic coinage […] received […] from him immediately […] interest at the rate of […] drachma(s) per mina each month; which the borrower shall also repay to Apynchis son of Ne[…] in Phamenoth of the coming seventh year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus Imperator […] [… ? lines lost …]

The text names the month Pauni (21), whereas the record gives 29 October, which falls in Phaophi; the date may come from the lost first column. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status label used in loan contracts, not an ethnic description.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehens- und Verkaufsurkunde über ein Haus als Sicherheit). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.13.2337

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Okt. 45 · Nilopolis bzw. Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

[1] [… 17 lines lost …] [2] ἔτους ἕκτου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος μηνὸς Παῦνι κα Δύστρου ἐν Νείλου πόλει τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ· ἐδάνεισεν Ἀπύγχις ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα οὐλὴ πηχ… ἀριστερῷ Ἑριεῦτι Πτολεμαίου Πέρσῃ τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὡς…