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Receipt for interest and partial repayment of a loan of six talents TM 21992Oxyrhynchos25. Juni 292

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A receipt in which Aurelius Horion of Oxyrhynchus acknowledges that Aurelius Agathos Daimon, acting through his wife Aurelia Apollonia, has paid the full interest on a 6-talent loan and 2 talents of the principal, leaving 4 talents still owed. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 25 June 292.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Horion son of Thonis, his mother being Thermouthion, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through […] son of (?) […]soueris, to Aurelius Agathos Daimon son of Agathos Daimon, his mother being Eudaimonis, from the same city, through his wife Aurelia Apollonia, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you, out of what you owe me under a handwritten bond for 6 talents of silver, the interest on the whole 6 talents in full up to and including Pachon of the present 8th and 7th year, and from the principal a further 2 talents of silver, so that there remain owed to me a further 4 talents of silver. This receipt, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus and year 7 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, Augusti, Epeiph 1. I, Aurelius Horion, received the interest and from the principal 2 talents as aforesaid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.

The agent through whom Horion acted is named in a badly damaged line that cannot be read with confidence. The double regnal year (8 and 7) refers to the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juni 292 · Oxyrhynchos

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