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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9822
Bank record of a loan of 240 drachmas from Gaius Iulius Serenus to Stotoetis TM 9822Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)20. Juni 149
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A bank document recording that Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, a 43-year-old villager of Soknopaiou Nesos, received a loan of 240 silver drachmas at 1% monthly interest from Gaius Iulius Serenus through the bank of Didymos, to be repaid in Pharmouthi of the following year. It dates to 20 June 149, under Antoninus Pius; the whole surviving text was crossed out by the scribe.
In English machine translation
Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pauni 26, through the bank of Didymos, former kosmetes, at Phremei (?).
Gaius Iulius Serenus to Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, his mother being Tamennaphris, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, aged 43, with a scar on the right shin: that he has received from Gaius Iulius Serenus a loan of silver, principal 240 drachmas, total 240 drachmas, at interest of one drachma per mina each month, which Stotoetis will also repay to him in the month of Pharmouthi of the coming year 13 without delay
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The entire text is enclosed in deletion brackets, probably cancelled when the loan was repaid or the draft abandoned. Interest of one drachma per mina per month equals 12% per year, the standard rate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bankakt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.