An order of the chief judge Chrysermos in Alexandria to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, forwarding a petition from Eudaimon the younger of Oxyrhynchus. Eudaimon asks that his debtor Apollonios son of Sarapion be served notice to repay a loan of over 300 drachmas plus overdue interest, failing which Eudaimon will seize his property. Dated to year 10 of Hadrian (AD 125-126).
In English machine translation
Chrysermos, priest and chief judge, to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. Let a copy of the memorandum submitted be served, as set out below.
Farewell. Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus […]
To Chrysermos, priest of Alexander the founder of the city and of the ages (?), priest, chief judge and in charge of the chrematistai and the other courts,
from Eudaimon the younger, son of Pet…uris also called Apollonios, of the people of the city of Oxyrhynchus. There being owed to me by Apollonios son of Sarapion son of Apollonios, his mother being Didyme, of the same city of Oxyrhynchus, under a written security made in the third year of Hadrian the lord, in the month Neos Sebastos, 3[…]8 silver drachmas of capital, which he agreed to repay on the thirtieth of Tybi of the same year or else to pay interest for the overdue period at one drachma per mina monthly, and repayment not having been made, I ask you to order that the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome be written to, to serve on him a copy of this, so that he may repay me the aforesaid capital and the interest for the overdue period, or know that I will proceed to execution as is proper against his property, […]
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The exact capital sum is lost in a gap (three hundred [...] eight drachmas). 'Drachma interest' means one drachma per mina per month, i.e. 12% a year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Authority for Execution of a Debt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.