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A note of hand (cheirographon) in which a son of Harpokrates acknowledges receiving an interest-bearing loan of 120 silver drachmas, promising repayment in Hathyr of year 24 of Antoninus Pius, with execution on all his property in case of default. It dates to AD 160.
The names of the lender and borrower are largely lost in the damaged opening lines. The closing phrase, partly restored, is the standard clause that the document is free of erasures and insertions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gelddarlehns - Schuldschein). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀ…ου[…]ια…τομ…… εοκ…[…]ε………ια… Ἁρποκράτου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ χρῆσιν ἔντοκον ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι δραχμὰς ρκ, ἃς καὶ ἀποδώσω σοι ἐν μηνὶ Ἁθὺρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος τετάρτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδώσω σοι ἕως τῆς προθεσμίας, ἔ…
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