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Acknowledgement of debt for the balance of a wheat price TM 20168unbekannt28. Okt. 137

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A handwritten loan acknowledgement, preserved in two copies, in which an unnamed debtor admits owing 148 silver drachmas, the balance of 300 drachmas received as the price of wheat, and promises to repay by 5 Hathyr. It is dated 28 October AD 137, in the reign of Hadrian.

In English machine translation

[1] […] that I have received from you as a loan of silver, capital, in imperial coin, […] 148 drachmas, which are the remainder of a total of 300 silver drachmas which I had received from you from hand to hand as for the price of wheat. The aforesaid 148 silver drachmas, being the remainder, as stated above, of the price of wheat, I will repay by the fifth of the present month Hathyr of the present year, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property. This chirograph, written in my own hand, I have issued to you in duplicate. Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Hathyr 1. [2] […] that I have received from you as a loan of silver, capital, in imperial coin, 148 drachmas, which are the remainder of a total of 300 silver drachmas which I had received from you from hand to hand as for the price of wheat. The aforesaid 148 silver drachmas, being the remainder, as stated above, of the price of wheat, I will repay by the fifth of the present month Hathyr of the present year, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property. This chirograph, written in my own hand, I have issued to you in duplicate. Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Hathyr 1.

The names of the parties are lost at the start of both copies. The repayment deadline falls only four days after the document was written.

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 · 28. Okt. 137

[1] […]ἔχειν παρʼ ὑμῶν χρῆσιν ἀργυρίου κεφαλαίου σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς … ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα ὀκτώ , αἵπερ εἰσὶ λοιπαὶ ἀπὸ ὅλων ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν τριακοσίων , ἃς ἐσχήκειν παρʼ ὑμῶν διὰ χειρὸς ὡς εἰς τιμὴν πυροῦ, τὰς δὲ προκειμένας ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα ὀκτώ , ο…