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Receipt for repayment of a loan of wheat at Tebtynis TM 11533Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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A notarial receipt from Tebtynis in which Orsenouphis son of Apynchis acknowledges repayment of a loan of 50 artabas of wheat by the brothers Kronion and Harphaesis. He returns the loan contract, made in Hathyr of the same year, for cancellation and renounces further claims.

In English machine translation

Year 21 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, […] at Tebtynis of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. Orsenouphis son of Apynchis, aged about 40, with a scar on the left shin, acknowledges to Kronion, aged about 52, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, and to Harphaesis, aged about 48, with a scar on the left shin, both sons of Kronion son of Cheos, that he has received from them, the two, Kronion and Harphaesis, 50 artabas of wheat, which the two owed to Orsenouphis under a loan agreement executed through the same record office in the present year, on the 16th of the month Hathyr, which he has also returned to them for cancellation; and concerning these neither Orsenouphis nor those acting for him shall proceed against the two, Kronion and Harphaesis, nor against those acting for them, nor on any other matter at all up to the present day, in any way whatsoever. The writer for the receipt is Maron son of Maron […] aged about 50, with a scar on the calf […] I, Orsenouphis son of Apynchis, acknowledge that I have received from Kronion and Harphaesis, both sons of Kronion son of Cheos, the 50 artabas of wheat, and I shall not proceed […] […]

The year 21 of Hadrian corresponds to AD 136/137; the day and month of the receipt are lost. Ages and scars are the usual identifying descriptions of contracting parties.

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 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους πρώτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ […]ἐν Τεβτύνι τῆς Πολέμονος μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ὀρσενοῦφις Ἀπύγχεως ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα οὐλὴ ἀντικνημίῳ ἀριστερῶι Κρονίωνι ὡς ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα δύο , οὐλὴ δακτύλωι μικρῷ χειρὸς ἀριστερᾶς …