A fragmentary register of bank loan acknowledgements from Panopolis, in which several borrowers acknowledge receiving sums of silver drachmas through the banker Aurelius Zoilos, some on behalf of soldiers, with interest and repayment terms. The documents are dated Thoth 15 of year 1 of Macrinus (12 September 217).
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[…] after the aforesaid term, if he wishes to leave it with us, we shall pay him […]
[…] per month, and of the vegetable (seed?) one and a half times per year, under mutual security […]
[…] being from all that we have and whatever we may acquire […]
[…] Aurelius Ision son of Kolanthos from Panopolis. ⟦Year 2⟧ Year 1 […]
[…] Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 15. Aurelius Paniskos […]
[…] son of Kales, mother Mertous, called Thytes, and Peliar[…]
[…] son of Petearbeschinis, mother Senpreis, and Harmiysis son of Harmiysis […]
[…] to Aurelius Zoilos, banker, greetings. We have been paid by you on behalf of […]
[…] from Panopolis, for our own use, four […] drachmas of silver […]
[…] without delay, necessarily, under mutual security of ours for payment […]
[…] from Panopolis. ⟦Year 2⟧ Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus ⟦Opellius⟧ Severus ⟦Macrinus⟧ […]
[…] I have received and I will repay as aforesaid. […]
[…] from Panopolis, I have received the aforesaid drachmas […]
[…] Psensenamoris
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[…] son of […]on son of Ammonios, from Panopolis, about 38 years old, with a scar on […]
[…] on behalf of Aurelius Hierax son of Melas, cavalryman of the ala […]
[…] to him with interest of one drachma per mina each month […]
[…] if he wishes to leave it with me, I shall pay him […]
[…] ⟦Year 2⟧ Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus ⟦Opellius⟧
[…] of the cohort of the Apamenes, I wrote on behalf of […]
[…] son of Pachoumis, mother Thermouthis, from […]
[…] greetings. I have been paid by you on behalf of Aurelius […]
[…] 208 drachmas of silver, total 208, which I will repay to him […]
[…] after the aforesaid term […]
[…] of Imperator Caesar Marcus ⟦Opellius⟧ Severus […]
[…] about 38 years old, with a scar on the left […]
[…] on behalf of Aurelia Tsenpachnoumis […]
[…] 200 drachmas of silver […]
[…] 600 drachmas of silver […]
[…] eighty-six […]
[…] my […]
[…] Thoth 15. In the time of T[…]
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The names of Macrinus (Opellius, Macrinus) were deleted after his fall, an instance of damnatio memoriae; the regnal year 2 was also struck and corrected to year 1. Other records date the text more broadly to 217-218.
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.