A loan contract from Herakleia in the Arsinoite nome, in which Apollonios son of Kastor acknowledges receiving from the priest Stotoetis a loan at interest of 200 silver drachmas and 15 artabas of wheat, repayable in Pauni of the same year. The scribe Alkimos signed for the illiterate borrower, and the contract was registered at the local record office in AD 145.
In English machine translation
Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Sebastos 16, Thoth 16, at Herakleia in the division of Themistes of the Arsinoite nome. Apollonios son of Kastor, grandson of Sambas, from the quarter of the Bithynians of the Other Places, Persian of the Epigone, about 32 years old, with a scar on the first finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Stotoetis son of Horos, grandson of Panephremmis, priest, about 31 years old, with a scar on the second finger of the right hand, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from him forthwith from hand to hand a loan at interest of 200 drachmas of silver as capital and 15 artabas of wheat in kind, new, clean and unadulterated, by the measure of the dromos, of four choinikes, which the acknowledging party shall repay to Stotoetis in the month of Pauni of the present 9th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord without delay, Stotoetis having the right of execution upon the acknowledging party and upon all his property, as if by a court judgment.
I, Apollonios son of Kastor, have received from Stotoetis the aforesaid 200 drachmas of silver and 15 artabas of wheat and I will repay them in the month of Pauni of the present year, as stated above. I, Alkimos, scribe of the aforesaid record office, wrote for him because he says he does not know letters.
Registered through the record office at Herakleia.
"Persian of the Epigone" was a legal status label, not an ethnic one, often used for borrowers in loan contracts. Sebastos was an honorific name for the month Thoth.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.