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Bank receipt for repayment of a debt to Klaudianos alias Serenos TM 19985unbekannt10. Sept. 166

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A bank document recording that Klaudianos also called Serenos, a former kosmetes, has been repaid 1,124 silver drachmas by Didymos and four other men, returning their debt document for cancellation. It was drawn up through the bank of Sarapion at the Tameia on 10 September 166, presumably in Alexandria or a nome capital such as Arsinoe.

In English machine translation

Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Thoth 13, through the bank of Sarapion at the Tameia. Didymos son of Didymos also called Demetrios, of the Sosikosmian tribe and Althaian deme, and Tesenouphis son of Tesenouphis, and another Tesenouphis son of Tesenouphis, and Panephremis son of Stotoetis, and Pabous son of Satabous, to Klaudianos also called Serenos, son of Mysthes, former kosmetes: (acknowledging) that he has received from the aforementioned the equivalent of what they owed him under a bank payment order of the same bank, which he has also returned to them for annulment and cancellation, 1,124 silver drachmas, total 1,124 drachmas, and that he makes no claim against them up to the present day. (Subscription) I, Serenos also called Klaudianos, have received, as stated above.

The kosmetes was a municipal magistrate overseeing the gymnasium and ephebes. The Sosikosmian tribe and Althaian deme are Alexandrian citizen designations; the bank 'at the Tameia' is attested at Arsinoe in the Fayum.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Sept. 166

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