A registered acknowledgment from Soknopaiou Nesos in which Pakysis, a priest of the god Soknopaios, confirms that his full brother Panephrimis has paid him 120 drachmas, the balance of a 420-drachma loan made the previous year. He returns the loan contract for cancellation and waives all further claims.
In English machine translation
Registered through the record office in the village of Soknopaiou Nesos.
In the thirteenth year of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, month Apellaios, Phaophi 7, at Soknopaiou Nesos in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. Pakysis son of Stotoetis the elder, son of Panephrimis, priest of the first tribe of Soknopaios the great, great god, aged about 41, with a scar on his left arm, acknowledges to his brother by the same father and the same mother, Panephrimis, aged about 41, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from him forthwith, from hand to hand out of the house, 120 silver drachmas, which are the balance of what his brother Panephrimis owed him under an agreement executed through the same record office in the past 12th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, on the twelfth of the month Hathyr, for 420 silver drachmas; and he has also returned this agreement to him for cancellation and annulment; and that neither Pakysis, the acknowledging party, nor his representatives will bring any claim against his brother Panephrimis or his representatives concerning what he has received as stated above, nor concerning any other matter at all, written or unwritten, from past times up to the present day, in any manner or on any pretext.
Signers: for the acknowledging party, Onnophris son of Onnophris, aged about 75, with a scar on the forehead on the left; for the other, Panephrimis son of Stotoetis, aged about […], with a scar […] right […].
I, Pakysis son of Stotoetis, acknowledge that I have received from you, my brother Panephrimis, the aforesaid 120 silver drachmas, which are the balance of what you owed me […] of 420 silver drachmas, and I make no claim about anything, as stated above. I, Onnophris, wrote on his behalf, since he does not know letters.
Panephrimis […]
[…] I, Panephrimis, wrote on his behalf, since he does not know letters.
The brothers are both said to be about 41, which suggests they may have been twins. Both principals were illiterate, so others signed for them.
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 a 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.