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Receipt for repayment of a silver loan to a cavalryman at Lato TM 128684Hermopolis oder Apollonopolis (?)396

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Receipt in which Flavius Makarios, a cavalryman of the detachment stationed at Lato, acknowledges that Aurelius Serenos, a councillor of Antinoopolis, has repaid in full a loan of silver by weight. Makarios renounces all further claims, including any by Senekion, a former praepositus. It is dated by the consulship year following that of Olybrius and Probinus, AD 396.

In English machine translation

† After the consulship of Flavii Olybrius and Probinus, the most illustrious, […] Flavius Makarios, cavalryman of the vexillatio at Lato, son of his father Ioannes, who signs below, to Aurelius Serenos […], councillor of the city of Antinoou, greetings. I have been paid in full by you the 1 pound, 10 ounces […] 12 grammata of silver which you received from me, and concerning these I have no claim against you, neither I nor Senekion, former praepositus, nor anyone else on my behalf […] of the weight […] […] the […] [… lines lost …]

A vexillatio was a cavalry detachment of the late Roman army; Lato is Latopolis (Esna). The silver is reckoned by weight in pounds, ounces and grammata, so the restored ounce and gramma figures affect the exact sum.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Repayment of a Loan). 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 · 396 · Hermopolis oder Apollonopolis (?)

† μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίων Ὀλυμβρίου καὶ Προβίνου τῶν λαμπροτάτων …[…] Φλάυϊος Μακάριος ἱππεὺς οὐεξιλλατίωνος ἐν τῇ Λάτων ἐκ πατρὸς Ἰωάννου ἑξῆς ὑπογράφων Αὐρηλίῳ Σερήνῳ τ…[…] βουλευτῇ Ἀντινόου πόλεως χαίρειν. πεπλήρωμαι παρὰ σοῦ τῆς τοῦ ἀργύρου λίτρας μιᾶς οὐγκιῶν δέκα […] γρα…