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The opening of an acknowledgment of debt, dated 27 June 440, in which Aurelius Pene of the village of Sepho in the Oxyrhynchite nome acknowledges owing something to Aurelius Haryotes of the hamlet of Hiera in the Upper Kynopolite nome. The text breaks off before the amount or object of the debt is stated.
Only the dating clause, the parties and the start of the acknowledgment survive, so the nature and amount of the debt are unknown. The place of writing is uncertain because the two parties came from different nomes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgment of Debt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Ἀνατολίου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου, Ἐπεὶφ γ. Αὐρήλιος Πένη Ἀπουτίου, μητρὸς Ἀροῦ, ἀπὸ κώμης Σεφῶ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ, Αὐρηλίῳ Ἁρυώτῃ Ὡρίωνος ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Ἱερᾶς τοῦ ἄνω Κυνοπολίτου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν σοῦ παρʼ ἐμαυτῷ καὶ ὀφείλειν σοι [… ? lines lost …]
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