Fragments of documents from Panopolis concerning the repayment of debts on handwritten bonds, including declarations that the creditor has been paid in full and has no further claim, one addressed to the banker Aurelius Zoilos. They date to the reign of the emperor Macrinus (AD 217-218).
In English machine translation
[…] …pis, (daughter of) Harpokratis, aged about 40, having a mole on the left […]
[…] … son of Sarapion, grandson of Hermias, from Panopolis, to Aurelius […]
[…]eikos and Theodora […] … […]atres, (son of) Achomneuis […]
[…] their interest on behalf of part of a handwritten bond of debt […]
[…] of the 79 […] Tybi 11, and I have no claim against […]
[…] of the handwritten bond, because I have been paid in full by them […]
[…] … their (?) … by the father, aged about 28, with a scar on the shin […]
[…] of Marcus ⟦Opellius⟧ Severus ⟦Macrinus⟧ Pius Felix Augustus […]
[…] and however I am styled, to Aurelius Zoilos, banker, greetings. […]
[…] son of Tbesis, (daughter of) Psensenaresais, and … […]
[…] owed me according to a bank payment made […]
[…] and of the interest owed to him […]
[…] against him, because I have previously been paid in full […]
[…] … of every claim to […]
[…] of Severus ⟦Macrinus⟧ […]
[…] I have received and released, as stated above. […]
The name of Macrinus was erased after his fall and damnatio memoriae, which is why it appears deleted in the text. A cheirographon is a private handwritten contract or bond.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.