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Tag: loan

Struggling to Provide

Nov 12, 2020

In early December, one year in the seventh century, a man called Damianos from the Fayum asked for a cash loan and was given it from another man, Shenoute. Short loan contracts such as this one are pretty common, although the amount and type of details provided vary from case to case. What is unusual … More Struggling to Provide

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