Receipt in which Chairemon son of Theon acknowledges that Archias, a freedman, has paid him through a bank at the Oxyrhynchite Sarapeum the final 168 drachmas of a 700-drachma loan made in AD 137, repayable in monthly instalments of 15 drachmas. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 141-142.
In English machine translation
Copy (?) 4.
Chairemon son of Theon son of Theon, his mother being Totoeus, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, to Archias, freedman of Amoitas son of Zoilos, from the same city, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received from you through the bank of Herakleides and partners at the Sarapeum near the city of Oxyrhynchus 168 drachmas of silver, the remainder owed to me by you of the capital sum of 700 drachmas of silver which I lent you on a note of hand through the same bank in the month Hathyr of the 22nd year of the deified Hadrian, which is the 1st year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, to be repaid in instalments over 50 months from the month Hadrianos of the same year, at 15 drachmas per month; after which, of the same 700 drachmas, I received from you, in accordance with the receipt which I issued to you through the same bank in the month Hathyr of the past 4th year, 532 drachmas […]
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The opening 'αλ δ' is of uncertain meaning. Hathyr of Hadrian's year 22 (= Antoninus' year 1) corresponds to late AD 137, Antoninus being reckoned in his adoptive period; 532 + 168 = 700 drachmas.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Repayment of a Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.