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Receipt for repayment of a loan of 224 drachmas, with cancellation of the contract TM 10094Herakleia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)10. Aug. 132

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A notarial acknowledgement in which Pakysis son of Pakysis confirms receiving 224 silver drachmas from Stotoetis and six other men, repaying a loan contracted earlier that year at the Soknopaiou Nesos record office. He returns the loan contract for cancellation and renounces all further claims; drawn up at Herakleia in the Arsinoite nome in AD 132.

In English machine translation

Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, month Kaisareios 17, Mesore 17, at Herakleia in the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome. Pakysis son of Pakysis son of Harpagathes, his mother being Taphiomis, aged about […], with a scar on the left eyebrow, acknowledges to Stotoetis son of Harpagathes son of Satabous, aged about […]8, with a scar on the right foot, and Harpagathes son of Pakysis son of Harpagathes, aged about 29, with a scar on the forehead on the left, and Tesenouphis, aged about 25, with a scar on the forehead on the left, and Stotoetis, aged about 21, without distinguishing mark, both sons of Horos son of Panephrymmis, and Stotoetis the elder son of Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, aged about 20, with a scar on the right eyebrow, and Stotoetis the younger son of Onnophris son of Stotoetis, aged about 33, with a scar on the left knee, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from them forthwith from hand to hand out of the house 224 silver drachmas, which they owed him according to an agreement executed through the record office in the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the present 16th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, in the month of Phaophi on the 10th, which he has also handed back to them for annulment and cancellation; and that neither the acknowledging party nor anyone acting for him will bring any claim against Stotoetis and his associates concerning any matter whatsoever, written or unwritten, from former times up to the present day, in any manner. I, Pakysis son of Pakysis, have received the aforesaid 224 silver drachmas and make no claim, as stated above. Registered through the record office at Herakleia.

Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the Egyptian month Mesore, hence the double date. The debtors are identified by age and scars, a standard feature of contracts in Roman Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Repayment of Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.amh.2.111

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Aug. 132 · Herakleia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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