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A loan of money in which a man whose mother was Ptolemas acknowledges receiving nine talents and some drachmas in silver and promises to repay them without delay, with agreed monthly interest if late. It was written in AD 314 in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The regnal years 8 and 6 refer to the joint reigns of Constantine and Licinius. The interest rate and the repayment date are lost, and the end of the document is missing.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gelddarlehen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Λικιννιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν τὸ γ[…] […]ου μητρὸς Πτολέμας ἀπὸ[…]τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ […]ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεωςχαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου σου ἀργυρίου […]τάλανταἐννέα καὶ δραχμὰ…
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