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
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.
p.oxy.2.286
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