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Loan of 200 drachmas from Theon to Amois TM 15647Oxyrhynchos140 - 141

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A loan contract in which Amois, son of Pompeius, of Oxyrhynchus acknowledges receiving 200 silver drachmas from Theon son of Theon, promising to repay them on the thirtieth of a month in the fourth year of Antoninus Pius. The text breaks off at the penalty clause.

In English machine translation

Amois son of Pompeius son of Pompeius, his mother being Harseis daughter of Dio[…], from the city of Oxyrhynchus, Persian of the Epigone, to Theon son of Theon son of Panechotes, his mother being Apia, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you, hand to hand, out of the house, 200 drachmas of silver of the imperial coinage, total 200 drachmas, as principal, to which nothing has been added, which I will also repay to you on the thirtieth of the month […] of the present fourth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, without delay. If I do not repay as written, the aforesaid […] [… lines lost …]

"Persian of the Epigone" is a legal status designation used for debtors in Roman-period loan contracts, with no exact English equivalent. The month of repayment is lost.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.49.3490

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 140 - 141 · Oxyrhynchos

Ἀμόϊς Πομπηΐου τοῦ Πομπηΐου μητρὸς Ἁρσεῖτος Διο…[…]ς ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς Θέωνι Θέωνος τοῦ Πανεχώτου μητρὸς Ἀπίας ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου Σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς διακοσίας, γείνονται δραχμαὶ διακόσι…