Loan of money (P.Duk.inv. 16)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Loan of money, Consulate of Severus and Maximinus [307]
Subject: Loans, Personal --Egypt --Bahnasa --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Games --Egypt --Bahnasa --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Bahnasa --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, reconstructed from numerous joining
	fragments, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 14 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 14.0 x 12.8 cm.
	19 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 16 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 16.
	Loan of money from Oxyrhynchos (modern name: Bahnasa),
	Egypt, written on papyrus. Loan of 16 talents and
	3,000 drachmas from Thonios(?) a victor in games
	for youth when he was a young man from the Greek
	elite in Oxyrhynchos to someone whose name begins
	with "Aurelios". Dated in the consulate of Severus
	and Maximinus (307 A.D.), presumably drawn up on
	Phamenoth 10 (March 6). The loan will be repaid in
	three installments, each on the 10th of the three
	successive months Pharmouthi, Pachon and Payni (5
	talents and 4,500 drachmas, 5 talents and 3,000 drachmas,
	and 5 talents and 1,500 drachmas respectively).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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