A receipt drawn up as a formal acknowledgement at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in AD 202/203. The councillor Heron son of Dioskoros acknowledges receiving 1,800 drachmas from the young Roman citizen Lucius Septimius Aurelius Ptolemaios alias Ammonios, repaying a mortgage loan on a two-towered house plus interest, and agrees to release the mortgage and make no further claims.
In English machine translation
[Year 11] of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax [Arabicus Adiabeni]cus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, [and Publius Sep]timius Geta Caesar Augustus, month […], at Ptolemais Euergetis [of the Arsinoite nome]. Heron son of Dioskoros, former kosmetes, councillor of the same city of the Arsinoites, registered in the Macedonians quarter, about 61 years old, with a scar on the sole of the foot […], acknowledges [to Lucius Septimi]us Aurelius Ptolemaios also called Ammonios, one of the victors in the sacred games and exempt from taxes, styled before [Roman citizenship] Ptolemaios also called Ammonios son of Ninnos also called Anoubion son of Heron, former agoranomos [of the same ci]ty, about 24 years old, with a scar on the right cheek, that he, Heron, has received from [Lucius Septimius Aureli]us Ptolemaios also called Ammonios, by this agreement, from hand to hand, [1,800] silver drachmas, of which 1,700 drachmas are equal to what he owed him according to a public [instrument executed] through the same record office of the metropolis in the past 10th year, in the month […], [on the mortgage of] the two-towered house belonging to him in the metropolis in the Cilicians quarter, in which […], [and the remain]ing 100 drachmas being the remainder of the interest on them from the date of the loan […] […] through the property record office the release of the mortgage […] [and that neither] Heron himself nor those claiming through him [will proceed] against Lucius Septimius Aur[elius Ptolemaios also called Ammoni]os or those claiming through him, either concerning the 1,800 drachmas he has received in total, [or any] other matter whatsoever, nor any other debt, [nor concerning any contract], written or unwritten, [from] former times up to [the present day, in any way] whatsoever.
The total of 1,800 drachmas is restored from the sum of 1,700 principal and 100 interest. A 'two-towered house' (oikia dipyrgia) was a type of fortified multi-storey house common in the Fayum.
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.