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Petition to the epistrategos Aurelius Herapion from Ptolemaios also called Herakleides, a former agoranomos and town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, concerning a debt of 3,000 silver drachmas owed to him by Agathos Daimon also called Enthesmos under a handwritten bond. He recalls an earlier hearing before the former epistrategos Colonianus; the rest of the request is lost.
Interest of four obols means four obols per mina per month, i.e. 8% a year. The epistrategos was the senior Roman official over a group of Egyptian nomes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡραπίωνι τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ Ἡρακλείδου ἀγορανομήσαντος βουλευτοῦ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως. πᾶσα κυρία ἔνγραφος συναλλαγὴ πίστιν καὶ ἀλήθειαν ἔχει. ὀφειλομένων μοι τοίνυν ὑπὸ Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος τοῦ καὶ Ἐνθέσμου κατʼ ἰδιόγραφον χειρόγραφον αὐτοῦ γεγ…
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