Receipt on account for money, wheat and goods under a mediation agreement TM 20089Herakleopolis12. Sept. 240

Fragment of a partial receipt in which someone acknowledges payment on account of a sum of 6,000 drachmas (one talent), 10 artabas of wheat and other goods recorded in an agreement reached through mediation. It is dated to the fourth year of Gordian III, Thoth 14 (12 September 240), at Herakleopolis, with a registration note of the following day.

In English machine translation

The Greek mesiteia refers to an arrangement settled through a mediator or arbitrator; the parties' names are lost with the beginning of the text. The 'receipt on account' (apochē epi logou) acknowledges a payment toward a larger obligation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Teilquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.