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Claim of a debtor against those who undertook to repay her loan TM 20557Oxyrhynchos17. Mai 82

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A memorandum by a woman whose mother Thaesis and she had borrowed 2,000 drachmas from Philoumene; Zenarion had undertaken to repay the loan and protect them, but Philoumene keeps pressing the petitioner. She asks that a copy be served on Zenarion and Heron through the collector of the Oxyrhynchite nome, reserving her right of execution on their property. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 82.

In English machine translation

[recto] [... lines lost ...] [...] [...] having spent [...] Zenarion agreed to repay, after five years, to Heron's mother Philoumene daughter of Heron, the 2,000 silver drachmas of capital which Philoumene lent to me and to my mother Thaesis under a contract executed through the record office in the city of the Oxyrhynchites in the ninth year of the deified Vespasian, Pharmouthi, together with the interest on them from the beginning until repayment, and to keep me and my mother Thaesis free from trouble and from exaction in every way, or else to pay whatever we are made to pay or lose on this account, with one half more, on the other terms contained in the security. But since Philoumene keeps harassing me at every turn, I have been compelled to come forward, and I ask you to order that a letter be written to the collector of foreigners' debts (?) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to deliver to Zenarion and to Heron a copy of this memorandum, so that they may keep us undisturbed and untroubled with regard to the aforesaid debt and repay it, or else know that, if anything is exacted from me for it, I shall have the right of execution against them and against whatever property of theirs I find in the locality, both grain land and other. For as to the other matters concerning myself and the other claims I have against them, and all the rights belonging to me, I hold to them and shall hold to them, waiving none. For the completion of the transaction I have dispatched Herakleides son of Herakleides. About 30 years old. As is proper. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus, month Germanikeios 22. [verso] [...] of the Oxyrhynchite [...]

The xenikon praktor was an official collecting private debts, here asked to serve the copy. Germanikeios is the Domitianic name for the month Pachon.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Claim of a Creditor). 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 · 17. Mai 82 · Oxyrhynchos

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