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Bank record of an interest-bearing loan to Pabous of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9825Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)2. Aug. 163

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A bank document recording a loan of 148 silver drachmas made through the bank of Sarapion at the Square of the Gymnasium by Didymos to Pabous, a man of about 50 from Soknopaiou Nesos. Interest is set at one drachma per mina per month, and repayment with interest is due in Hathyr of the following year. It dates to 2 August AD 163, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In English machine translation

Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Mesore 9. Through the bank of Sarapion at the Square of the Gymnasium. Didymos son of Didymos also called Demetrios, to Pabous son of Satabous, grandson of Harpagathes, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, about 50 years old, with a scar on the forehead on the right, (acknowledges) that he has received from Didymos an interest-bearing loan of a capital of 148 silver drachmas, at interest of one drachma per mina for each month, which he will also repay in the month of Hathyr of the coming fourth year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, together with the interest that will have accrued, without delay, in the name of […] […]

Interest of one drachma per mina (100 drachmas) per month equals 12% a year, the standard rate in Roman Egypt. 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 (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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Aug. 163 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους τρίτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Σεβαστοῦ Μεσορὴ θ διὰ τῆς Σαραπίωνος τραπέζης Πλατείας Γυμνασίου. Δίδυμος Διδύμου τοῦ καὶ Δημητρίου Παβοῦτι Σαταβοῦτος τοῦ Ἁρπαγάθου ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου…