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Acknowledgement of obligation to repay a debt to Theon son of Narkissos TM 18113Oxyrhynchos8. Okt. 71

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An acknowledgement from Oxyrhynchus in which Pane[…], son of Petosiris, a villager of Senekeleu, undertakes to repay Theon son of Narkissos by 30 Epeiph a debt owed under a private hand-written contract of AD 46/47 that had been publicly registered. The document breaks off before the amount and further terms.

In English machine translation

Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, Phaophi 10, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi of the Thebaid. Pane[…], son of Petosiris son of Artem[…], his mother being […]nis daughter of Didymos, of those from the village of Senekeleu of the Western toparchy, Persian of the Epigone, acknowledges to Theon son of Narkissos son of Narkissos, his mother being Tausorapis daughter of Areion, of those from the city of the Oxyrhynchi, in the street, that the acknowledging party is obliged to repay to Theon on the 30th of Epeiph of the present fourth year the [sums] owed by him to the same Theon according to a hand-written contract made from hand to hand in the month of Thoth Sebastos of the seventh year of the deified Claudius Augustus, which has also been registered […] […]

"Persian of the Epigone" is a legal status designation often used for debtors, with no exact English equivalent. The original loan dates to Thoth Sebastos of Claudius' year 7 (September AD 46).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Homologie wegen der Rückzahlung einer Schuld). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.mil.congr.xiv.pg78

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Okt. 71 · Oxyrhynchos

ἔτους τετάρτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Οὐεσπασιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Φαῶφι ι ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Πανε[…] Πετοσίριος τοῦ Ἀρτεμ[…]μητρὸς[…]νιδος τῆς Διδύμου, τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Σενεκελεὺ τῆς πρὸς λίβα τοπαρχίας, Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς, Θέωνι Ναρκίσσου τοῦ Ναρκίσσου μητρὸς Ταυσο…