Receipt of Money

The 6th year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus Germanicus (month, day) at Tebtunis in the Polemon district of the Arsinoite nome. Dioskoros also called Kastor, son of Kronion, son of Kastor, aged about … (description) acknowledges to Herakleides, son of Maron, aged about 62 years, having a scar on the left brow, brother from the same mother of his (viz. Dioskoros’) own deceased mother Apollonarion, daughter of Lysimachos, that he has received from him, Herakleides, from hand to hand out of his house 401 silver drachmae and 2 obols, being the third part due to him Dioskoros of the 1204 silver drachmae which came into the hands of Herakleides and belong to the 2000 silver drachmae granted by Herakleides’ deceased mother Thaubarion, daughter of Mysthes, to Dioskoros’ mother Apollonarion by a deed of syngraphodiatheke drawn up through the record-office of the metropolis in the 6th year of Domitianus, month of Kaisareios, 6th supplementary day - - -, also in conformity with the bond written by Herakleides and by Apollonios and Lysimachos also called Gaius, his brothers from the same mother, concerning the same 2000 drachmae; this bond remains valid except for the 401 drachmae 2 obols paid by Herakleides as aforesaid. And Dioskoros shall not proceed against Herakleides neither on account of the sum received as aforesaid nor of the interests of the capital nor of the interests which his father Kronion received when Dioskoros was still a minor, from former times up to the present day. (Subscriptions of Dioskoros and Herakleides and docket of the record-office at Tebtunis.) On the verso: Acknowledgment from Dioskoros to Herakleides. Receipt. Translation with minor modifications: B.A. van Groningen, P.Fam.Tebt. 7