Copy of an agreement from Oxyrhynchus in Nero's second year (AD 56) by which Herakleia, with her guardian Nikippos, transfers to Papontos the right to collect a loan of 200 silver drachmas plus interest owed by Pnepheros, having been paid the sum by Papontos. She hands over the two earlier agreements and guarantees them against challenge.
In English machine translation
Copy. Year 2 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Kaisareios, intercalary day 3, in Oxyrhynchus city of the Thebaid. Herakleia daughter of Herakleides, citizen, with her guardian Nikippos son of Nikippos, of the deme Althaieus, acknowledges to Papontos son of Aphynchis also called Zoilos, both of Oxyrhynchus city, in the street, that she has ceded to him the right of exaction and recovery of 200 drachmas of silver in Imperial and Ptolemaic coin, which Herakleia herself happens to have had ceded to her by an agreement executed through the daybook of the record office in the month Kaisareios of the present second year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, the money having been borrowed by Pnepheros son of Papontos, styled Persian of the Epigone, under another agreement executed through the same record office on the intercalary days of the month Kaisareios of the first year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator; and that she has likewise further ceded to him the right of exaction which she herself had been ceded through the agreement made to her as aforesaid, of the 200 drachmas of silver […] Papontos […] that she has conceded to him the exaction and recovery […] of the 200 drachmas of silver and the interest, and to carry out everything else just as was permitted to her and to Eirenaios; and she has forthwith handed over to Papontos the two agreements made to her and Eirenaios as aforesaid, which she will guarantee to be lawful and uncancelled, because she has been paid off by Papontos with the 200 drachmas of silver and the interest. Any claim made contrary to these terms shall be invalid, and moreover Herakleia or anyone proceeding on her behalf shall pay to Papontos or his representatives for each claim the damages and a fine of 100 drachmas of silver and the same amount to the public treasury, and the contract shall nonetheless be valid.
The document is a synchoresis-type cession of a claim registered through the record office (katalogeion) at Alexandria. 'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status designation usually used by debtors.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Transfer of a 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.