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Opening of a written acknowledgement of debt from Oxyrhynchus, dated 23 October 497. Aurelius Lamason, a villager of the Oxyrhynchite nome, admits that he owes Aurelius Epiphanios, son of the late Joseph, the price of wine he bought from him and took away. The rest of the document, including the amount, is lost.
The catalogue classes this as a fictitious loan: an unpaid purchase price for wine is recast as a debt owed by the buyer. The village name and the sum owed are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fictitious 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.
ὑπατείας τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Φλαουίου Ἀναστασίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου τὸ β Φαῶφι κϛ ἰνδικτίονος ϛ. Αὐρήλιος Λαμάσων υἱὸς Πεττιρίου ἀπὸ κώμης […]τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἐπιφανίῳ υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Ἰωσὴφ ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ὀφείλειν σοι…
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