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Acknowledgement of a loan of gold solidi from the holy Apa Apollos TM 18975Hermopolites487 - 488

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Acknowledgement of a cash loan in which Aurelius Victor son of Olympios admits owing 6 gold solidi (less 15 carats by the village standard of Poeis) to someone connected with the holy Apa Apollos, probably a monastery, repayable by Pachon of the 12th indiction. It comes from the Hermopolite nome, AD 487-488, with a Coptic docket on the back.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… lines lost …] [Aurelius Victor] son of Olympios, from the village of … […] of the holy Apa Apollos: I owe and [have received for my own] pressing need 6 solidi of gold principal, each less 2 1/2 carats, by the standard of the village of Poeis, total 6 solidi of gold principal less 15 carats, and I am ready to pay these to you, your Piety, by the coming month of Pachon of the beginning of the twelfth indiction, without any dispute. [And] for security he has made for you this security as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Victor son of Olympios, the aforesaid, have received and owe the [six] solidi of gold [principal] less [fifteen] carats, [which I will also repay at the term as aforesaid.] [… lines lost …] [verso] [Note of hand of Aurelius] Victor [son of Olympios] Victor son of Olympios, [who owes …][…]

Solidi 'less carats' were coins counted at a reduced weight standard, here that of the village of Poeis. The creditor addressed as 'your Piety' is likely a cleric of the monastery of Apa Apollos.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 487 - 488 · Hermopolites

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