This inscription was engraved on the other side of the stele that contains SEG 70.191, and it is dated to the same year; but it does not seem to have any direct connection to the debt mentioned in that inscription.
It describes a method sometimes used in Greece to generate income, by borrowing a sum of money and then lending it out again at interest; but the surviving text does not make it clear what the income was being used for. The rate of interest here is always one-seventieth per month, which is equivalent to about 17% per year. In the first two years the interest was paid out; but after that the interest for each year was added to the capital.
The inscription was published with a French translation and commentary by Y. Kalliontzis, "Contribution à l'épigraphie et à l'histoire de la Béotie hellénistique", no. 34 ( OpenEdition ).
The polemarchs of the year when Timon [was archon] - Damoteles son of Lysidamos, Kaphisodoros son of Damatrichos and Philomeilos son of Philon - [recorded], in accordance with the decree of the people, an account of the debt that . . . for the payment [when ? Athenēos was archon], the loan for the . . . ...doros son of Hippoklidas, [during the first] six months: 2,100 drachmas and the interest . . .
. . . solid drachmas . . . 10 . . . 180 drachmas; the polemarchs for the second six months, Thynon and his colleagues, leased [the sum of the loan], and the interest was 195 drachmas and 2 obols. For this whole year [when] Athanēos was archon the interest generated {misthoi} was 375 drachmas and two obols. The balance of the loan was 2,100 drachmas.
When Saumeilos was archon, the polemarchs leased the sum of the loan for one year, and the loan amount was 2,100 drachmas and the interest generated, 360 drachmas; and for this this year 20 the lenders received the interest generated, 360 drachmas. The balance of the loan was 2,100 drachmas.
When Patroklidas was archon, the loan was 2,100 drachmas, and the same rate of interest, yielding an annual interest of 360 drachmas. The total of the loan including the interest generated was 2,460 drachmas.
When Melanes was archon, the loan, with the interest generated in the year [when] Patroklidas was archon, was 2,460 drachmas and the same rate of interest, yielding an annual interest of 421 drachmas. The total of the loan, including the interest generated 30 for the year when Patroklidas was archon, was 2,881 drachmas and 1 obol.
When Peisimelos was archon, the loan, with the interest generated in the year when Melanes was archon, was 2,881 drachmas and 1 obol, thus generating annual [interest] of 4[93 drachmas and 1 obol]. The total of the loan, including the interest generated for the year when Peisimelos was archon, was 3,3[74 drachmas and 2 obols].
When Protarchos was archon, the loan, [with] the interest generated in the year when Peisimelos [was archon], was 3,3[74 drachmas and 2 obols], thus generating interest this year of 577 drachmas and 5 obols, and from this sum deducting 40 the [. . . revenue] they received from shops . . . when . . . was archon, 461 drachmas and ½ obol, . . . . . . when Protarchos was archon . . . . . .
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