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ἔτους ὀγδόου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ ΦαμενώθΦαμενὼι πεντεκαιδεκάτηι ἐν Θεαδελφείᾳ τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ἥρων Ἑρμᾶτος Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα οὐλὴ μετώπωι μέσωι Ἥρωνι ΔίουΔείου ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι ἐννέα οὐλὴ μετώπωι ἐκἐγ δεξιῶν ὑπὸ τρίχα ἔχειν παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν χρῆσιν ἔντοκον καὶ τὴν ἀπόδοσιν ποιήσασθαιποήσασθαι τῷ Ἥρωνι ΔίουΔείου ἐν μηνὶ Φαρμοῦθι πεντεκαιδε κάτῃ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ὀγδόου ἔτους Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραϊανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ ἄνευ πάσης ὑπερ θέσεως καὶ εὑρησιλογίας. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῷ καθ’ ἃ γέγραπται, ἀποτεισάτω παραχρῆμα μεθ’ ἡ μιολίας καὶ τόκου, τῆς πράξεως οὔσης τῷ Ἥρωνι Δείου Ἥρων Δίου Ἥρωνι Ἑρμᾶτος· ἀπέχω τὰς τοῦ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἁπλῶς ἐγγράπτουἐνγράπτου ἢ ἀγράφουἀγράφως. ἔτους ἐνάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ Ἐπεὶφ ιε.

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EN scholarly · D. Sells, BASP 59 (2022) 88
In the eighth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus (Trajan) Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, on the fifteenth day of Phamenoth, in Theadelpheia in the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome, Heron, son of Hermas, a Persian by descent, ca. thirty years of age, with a scar in the middle of his forehead, acknowledges to Heron, son of Deios, ca. twenty-nine years old, with a scar on the right side of his forehead under his hairline, that he has received from him a hundred silver drachmas as a loan bearing interest and that he will return them to the same Heron, son of Deios, on the fifteenth of the month of Pharmouthi of the present eighth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus without any delay or excuse. And if he does not return them in accordance with what is written, let him pay them back with a 50% penalty and with interest immediately, while the right of execution (of the debt) belongs to Heron, son of Deios … (In the left margin) I, Heron, son of Deios, to Heron, son of Hermas: I have received the 100(plus) drachmas (and I will not bring any charge against you about anything) at all, written or unwritten. In the ninth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Epeiph 15.

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