One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121949
Acknowledgement of a money loan from a gymnasiarch to a high priest TM 121949From Oxyrhynchus294 CE (?)
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Two copies of a loan acknowledgement from Oxyrhynchus, probably of AD 294, in which Aurelius Ammon[…], a former gymnasiarch, acknowledges owing 3,000 silver drachmas to Aurelius […], high priest and town councillor. Repayment was scheduled in instalments of one talent each, with one in the month of Epeiph.
In English machine translation
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In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus.
Aurelius Ammon[…], gymnasiarch of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius […], high priest, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that I owe you and am indebted to you 3,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti […], which I will repay to you in the month of Epeiph […] one talent, […] one talent, […] one talent […]
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In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus.
Aurelius Ammon[…], gymnasiarch of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius […], high priest, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings.
I acknowledge that I owe you and am indebted to you 3,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti […], which I will repay to you […] month, in the month of Epeiph […] one talent, […] one talent, and […]
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The text survives in two parallel copies, each damaged, which supplement one another. The figure of 3,000 drachmas sits oddly beside instalments of a talent (6,000 drachmas) each, so part of the sum or schedule is likely lost in the gaps.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan of Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.nyu.2.25
[1] ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Αὐρήλιος Ἀμμων-γυμνασιαρχ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ […]ἀρχιερεῖ βουλευτῇ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶνπόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶι ὀφείλειν σοι καὶ χρεωστεῖν ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν νομίσματος δραχμὰς τρισχιλίας[…] …τ…