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Transfer of a debt owed by Herakleios among three partners TM 20543Oxyrhynchos

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Copy of an agreement in which Dionysios and Sarapion grant a woman, apparently their partner, the right to collect 249 silver drachmas owed by Herakleios, as part of settling 947 drachmas 2 obols due to her for their use of her share; remaining debts and any tax deficits are to be shared by the three. Written at Oxyrhynchus in Nero's 12th year (AD 66).

In English machine translation

Sara[…], pat[…], and […], mon[…], me[…], of the god […] owe[…], -ptor, gr[…] principal sums […], on behalf of the […] of 249 silver drachmas in completion of 947 silver drachmas 2 obols due to you, in return for the use we have made of your share, we acknowledge that you have the right to make for yourself the demand from Herakleios for the aforesaid 249 silver drachmas, the receipt which you previously issued to us remaining valid, while the rest of Herakleios' debt is common to the three of us, and the rest of the deficit that will appear owed by other tax-payers from the nome is likewise common to the three of us, on condition that no claim whatsoever shall be left to any of the aforementioned against the other concerning anything in any way at all, all the aforewritten remaining valid. The signed agreement is valid. Copy of the subscription: I, Dionysios son of Dionysios also called Didymos, son of Dionysios, my mother being Ptolema daughter of Hermippos, have conceded together with Sarapion the exaction of the 249 silver drachmas, and I make no complaint, as stated above. Of another, likewise: I, Sarapion son of Didymos son of Sarapion, my mother being Dionysia daughter of Klaros, have conceded together with Dionysios the exaction of the 249 silver drachmas, and I make no complaint, as stated above. Year 12 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Germanikeios 15.

Germanikeios is the name given under Nero to the month Pachon, so the date falls in spring AD 66. The context of tax-payers and a deficit suggests the three were partners in a tax-collecting contract.

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.

p.oxy.2.272

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

Σαρα[…], πατ[…], καὶ τ[…], μον[…], με[…], θεοῦ γ[…] ὀφειλο[…], πτορος γρ[…] κεφάλαια […], ὑπὲρ τοῦ κα[…]ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν διακοσίων τεσσαράκοντα ἐννέα εἰς πλήρωσινἀργυρίου δραχμῶν ἐνακοσίων τεσσαράκοντα ἑπτὰ ὀβολῶν δύο τῶν αἱρούντων σοι ἀνθʼ ἧς πεποιήμεθα χρήσεως τοῦ κατὰ σὲ μέρου…