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Petition to the strategos for recovery of a loan made by the petitioner's father TM 11240Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)3. Mai 146

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A petition from Stotoetis son of Stotoetis of Soknopaiou Nesos to the strategos Maximos also called Nearchos, asking him to summon the debtor Pekysis. The petitioner's late father had lent 1,500 silver drachmas to the brothers Stotoetis and Pekysis in AD 134, and neither interest nor principal had been repaid. It was written on 3 May 146 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To Maximos also called Nearchos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos. My aforementioned father Stotoetis, while he was alive, lent to Stotoetis and Pekysis, both sons of Pakysis, according to a handwritten contract made in the 18th year of the deified Hadrian in the month of Epeiph, 1,500 drachmas of silver. Since I have been busy about recovering this money, because they have paid neither the interest nor anything of the principal, and because one of the two debtors, Stotoetis, has died and Pekysis despises my youth, I have taken refuge with you and ask, if it seems good to you, that you summon Pekysis, so that with your help I may recover what is my own and support myself from it, since I am also a camel-breeder. Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pachon 8.

The loan was made in Epeiph of Hadrian's 18th year (summer AD 134). The petitioner says the surviving debtor 'despises his youth', implying he was a minor or young man.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 3. Mai 146 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

Μαξίμῳ τῷ καὶ Νεάρχῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Στοτοήτιος τοῦ Στοτοήτιος ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. ὁ προγεγραμμένος μου πατὴρ Στοτοῆτις, ὁπότε περιῆν, ἐδάνεισε Στοτοήτι καὶ Πεκύσει ἀμφοτέροις Πακύσιος κατὰ χειρόγραφον γεγονὸς τῷ ιη ἔτει Θεοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ μηνὶ Ἐπε…