A notarial receipt from Tebtynis, dated 21 August AD 135, in which Aphrodisia also called Ptolemais, with her brother as guardian, acknowledges receiving 20 artabas of wheat from Kronion son of Cheos. The wheat repaid a debt originally owed to her late husband Herakleides' mother and bequeathed to her by his will, and she renounces further claims against Kronion.
In English machine translation
Year 19 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, month Kaisareios, Mesore 28, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Aphrodisia also called Ptolemais, daughter of Isidoros, about 25 years old, without distinguishing mark, with her guardian, her brother Menelaos also called […]eios, about 30 years old, scar […], acknowledges to Kronion son of Cheos, about 75 years old, scar on the little finger of the left hand, that she has received from him, Kronion, 20 artabas of wheat which Kronion owed without written contract to Helene daughter of Herodes, mother of Herakleides son of Didymos the Younger son of Herodes, former kosmetes, now deceased, the husband of Aphrodisia, (and which were) owed to her by an agreement in year 19 of the deified Trajan, Epeiph 25, through the same record office, which (agreement) she has also returned to him for cancellation; (the wheat being) from the sums owed to Herakleides which were assigned by him to Aphrodisia by will in the past year 18, Epeiph 19, through the record office of Tebtynis; and that Aphrodisia will not proceed against Kronion concerning these things, nor concerning any other debt of Herakleides, nor concerning any other matter whatsoever up to the present […], Aphrodisia suffering no loss regarding what she has received as stated above.
I, Menelaos also called […]eios, have been registered as guardian of my sister, who receives on all the above terms the 20 artabas of wheat, as stated above.
I, Aphrodisia, have received the 20 artabas of wheat. Kronion: the receipt has been made out to me.
Apollonios wrote for them, as they do not know letters.
Registered through Lourios also called Apollonios, in charge of the record office of Tebtynis and Kerkesoucha Orous.
Kaisareios is the honorific Roman name for the month Mesore. A kosmetes was a municipal magistrate responsible for the gymnasium and festivals.
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 un prestito in natura). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.