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Acknowledgement of a wheat loan from Heroneinos to Teboulas TM 11401Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)7. Nov. 241

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A loan acknowledgement in which Aurelius Teboulas of the village of Phnebie confirms receiving 10 1/2 artabas of wheat from Aurelius Heroneinos of the Moeris quarter, to be repaid in Pauni in the metropolis. It was written at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum in November 241.

In English machine translation

Year five of Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, month of Audnaios [...] Hathyr 11, at Ptolemais Euergetis of the Arsinoite nome. Aurelius Teboulas son of Mysthes, from the village of Phnebie, about 22 years old, with a scar [...] on the big (?) second finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Aurelius Heroneinos son of Demetrios, from the Moeris quarter, about 58 years old, with a scar on the right shin, that he, the acknowledging party Aurelius Teboulas, has received from him as a loan in kind ten and a half artabas of wheat [...], which he will also repay to Aurelius Heroneinos in the month of Pauni in the metropolis by the four-choinix measure. If he does not repay by the due date, he shall pay the highest price of wheat current at the time, the right of execution being [...] [... ? lines lost ...]

The date gives both the Macedonian month Audnaios and the Egyptian month Hathyr. The penalty clause and the end of the contract are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Getreidedarlehensschuldschein). 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 · 7. Nov. 241 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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