Acknowledgement of liability for two secured loans TM 20640Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt23 August, 102 A.D.

In the fifth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month Kaisareios 30, at Oxyrhynchus city in the Thebaid. Stephanos also called Amois, son of Sosibios son of Apollophanes, his mother being Ptollarous daughter of Chairemon, of Oxyrhynchus city, acknowledges to Heraklas son of Heraklas son of Harthonis, his mother being Demetrous, of the same city, in the street, that there have been made in the name of the acknowledging party Stephanos, on trust, two loans ⟦…⟧ which Heraklas lent from his own funds through the record office in the same city: by the first, in the month of Mecheir of the 2nd year of Traianus Caesar the lord, to Rufus son of Diokles son of Diokles, his mother being Didyme daughter of Rufion, 450 drachmas of silver bearing interest, on the security of the landed property of Rufus declared in the same loan; and by the other, in the month of Tybi of the following third year, to Rufus's full brother Diokles, another 416 drachmas of silver of capital, on the security of the landed property declared in the same loan; which loans are held by Heraklas, to whom it shall also be permitted […] [… lines lost …]