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Receipt for repayment of a loan by Kronion son of Cheos and his family TM 11531Tebtynis (Arsinoites)26. Mai - 24. Juni 121

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A notarial receipt from Tebtynis in AD 121 in which Herakleides, a kosmetes, acknowledges repayment of a 236-drachma loan with interest by Kronion son of Cheos, his wife, son and daughter-in-law. He returns the original loan contract of Trajan's 13th year for cancellation and renounces further claims.

In English machine translation

Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian the lord, Pauni […], at Tebtynis of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. Herakleides son of Didymos the younger, son of Herodes, kosmetes in office, […] aged about 30, with a scar on both eyebrows, acknowledges to Kronion son of Cheos, aged about 60, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, and to his wife Thenapynchis daughter of Patynis, aged about 51, with a scar on the right knee, and to the children of both, Kronion, aged about 36, with a scar on the right forearm, and Taorsenouphis, who is the wife of the son Kronion, aged about 33, with a scar on the right shin, the women each with her husband as guardian, that he has received from them, from hand to hand out of the house, the 236 drachmas of silver and the interest, which the four owed to Herakleides by a loan agreement executed through the same record office in the 13th year of the deified Trajan, on the 11th of the month Choiak, which he has also returned to them on the spot for cancellation and annulment; and that neither Herakleides nor those acting for him will proceed against the four or against any one of them or against those acting for them, either about these matters or about any other matter whatsoever, written or unwritten, or any debt or transaction up to the present day, in any way. I, Herakleides son of Didymos the younger, acknowledge that I have received from Kronion son of Cheos and his wife and children the 236 drachmas and the interest, and I will not proceed against Kronion or his wife and children. Kronion and the 3 (others): the receipt has been made to us as stated above. […] wrote for them, since they do not know letters. Registered through Lurius, in charge of the record office of Tebtynis and Kerkesoucha Orous, Polemon division.

The kosmetes was a municipal magistrate overseeing the gymnasium and ephebes. The original loan dates to Choiak of Trajan's year 13 (December AD 109).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Restituzione di prestito). 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 · 26. Mai - 24. Juni 121 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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