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Fragment of an acknowledgement of debt in which an unnamed person admits owing half a gold solidus to another and undertakes to pay it in the month Pauni of the sixth indiction. It comes from Thebes and is dated around AD 542-543.
The phrase rendered 'as a gratuity' (hyper philotimias) is unusual here and may refer to an extra payment or courtesy connected with an existing debt. The solidus (nomisma) was the standard late Roman gold coin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of debt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν καὶ χρεωστεῖν σοι εἰς ἔκτισιν καὶ ἀπόδοσιν χρυσοῦ δοκίμου κεφαλαίου εἰς ἀριθμὸν νομισματίου ἡμίσους γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισματίου 𐅵, ὅπερ ἑτοίμως ἔχω παρασχεῖν σοι ὑπὲρ φιλοτιμίας τοῦ χρεωστουμένου σοι παρʼ ἐμοῦ χρέους ἐν τῷ μηνὶ Παῧνι τῆς παρούση…
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