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A holograph acknowledgement of debt in which the Roman citizen Gaius Aruntius Posidonius confirms receiving an interest-bearing loan of 300 silver drachmas from Stotoetis son of Apynchis, in addition to earlier secured loans totalling 1,452 drachmas 3 obols. He promises repayment in Epeiph of Trajan's 16th year. It is dated 6 January AD 113.
The closing phrase declares that the document is in the debtor's own handwriting, which gave such a private note legal force. The lender's name Stotoetis suggests the Fayum (Soknopaiou Nesos), but no provenance is recorded.
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.
Γάιος Ἀρούντιος Ποσιδώνιος Στοτοήτι ἈπύγχιτοςὈρσενούφιος χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰ σοῦ χρῆσιν ἔντοκον ἀργυρίου κεφαλαίου δραχμὰς τριακοσίας γίνονται δραχμαὶ τ χωρὶς μὲν ἄλλων ὧν ὀφείλω σοι κατʼ ἀσφάλειαν δανείων ἀργυρίου κεφαλαίου δραχμὰς χιλίας τετρακοσίας πεντήκοντα δύο τριώβ…
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