Loan of money.Ioudas, son of IosephosAPISberkeley.apis.1043(CU)1043p.tebt.3.1.8180206;3.1;818p.tebt;3.1;81829452945P.Tebt.0818Ioudas has lent a substantial sum of money to Agathocles, it being the debt still remaining from an earlier loan from Ioudas to Agathocles.Margins: left, 1.1 cm.; bottom, 1.4 cm.7th year of Ptolemy VI Philometor, 13th of the Macedonian month Gorpiaios, 13th of the Egyptian month Mecheir.1272Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek2 papyri ; 19.1 x 16.4 cm.; and one tiny Frag..31 lines, on recto along the fibers.Verso empty.
2 different hands: 1 (body of contract, lines 1-28), regular cursive; 2 (subscription, lines 29-31), small semi-uncial.
174 B.C.TrikomiaAgathokles, son of Ptolemaios
Mummy cartonnage at Tebtunis 29
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekLoansJewsInterestDebt reliefTrikomiaThemistou merisArsinoites nomosHerakleopolites nomosContracts, Ptolemaic PeriodRectoVerso
In the reign of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios and Kleopatra the gods Epiphanai in the seventh year, while Philostratos son of Asklepiodotos was priest of Alexandros and the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores and the gods Epiphanai, and Aspasia daughter of Chrysermos was athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, and Isidora daugther of Apollonios kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, and Eirene daughter of Ptolemaios priestess of Arsinoe Philopator, on the thirteenth of the month Gorpiaios, (is) the thirteenth of Phamenoth, in Trikomia in the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome. Ioudas son of Iosephos, Jew of the Epigone, has lent to Agathokles son of Ptolemaios, Jew, taktomisthos of the infantry of Molossos stationed in the Herakleopolite nome, two talents five hundred drachmas of bronze money for twelve months from the date above written with interest at two drachmas per mina per month. This loan is the amount which Agathokles still owed to Ioudas out of five talents which he had received from Ioudas as an advance towards a money-changing (?) business in partnership according to a written agreement, of which Ananias son of Ionathan, Jew of the Epigone, is the guardian. Agathokles shall repay to Ioudas the aforesaid loan and the interest in the month of Mecheir of the eighth year; but if he do repay it as stated, he shall pay it increased by a half. This agreement is valid. Witnesses are Deinias son of Aineas, Thraseas son of Sosibios, Thebon son of Phanokles, Samaelos son of Ioannes, all four Jews of the Epigone, Theodoros son of Theodoros who is also called Samaelos, Nikanor son of Iason, the two Jews of the men through Dositheos, of the first hipparchy, eighty-arouras men. (2nd hand) I, Agathokles, have received the two talents and the five hundred drachmas, the amount of the loan above written, and have deposited the agreement, which is valid, with Deinias as its keeper.
P.Tebt., III.818; CPJ v. 1, no. 24 See A. Kasher, The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, p. 47. On line 3, see BL v. 8, p. 496; on line 6, see BL v. 3, p. 245.P.Tebt.:3.1:818