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Acknowledgement of debt for coarse barley meal bought on credit TM 22667Oxyrhynchos4. Febr. 304

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A note of hand in which Aurelius Apollon of Oxyrhynchus acknowledges owing Aurelius Paous of Dinnis in the Arsinoite nome 10 talents 3,000 drachmas for two measures of coarse barley meal bought on credit, to be repaid in Pachon. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 4 February 304.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Apollon son of Didymos, his mother being Arsinoe, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius Paous, however he is styled, from Dinnis in the Arsinoite nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I owe you, for the two psieithoi (?) of coarse meal which I bought and carried away, 10 talents and 3,000 drachmas of silver in the coin of the Augusti, total 10 talents 3,000 drachmas, which I will repay to you in the month of Pachon of the present 20th and 12th year without any delay or evasion, the right of execution being yours against me and against all my property. This note of hand is valid wherever it is produced and for anyone who produces it on your behalf, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Year 20 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and year 12 of our lords Constantius and Maximian the most illustrious Caesars, Mecheir 9. (2nd hand?) I, Aurelius Apollon son of Didymos, owe for the price of coarse meal […] […]

The word rendered psieithoi (ψειέθων) appears to be a measure or container for the meal whose exact meaning is uncertain. The subscription breaks off and the end of the document is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Coarse Barley Meal on Credit). 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 · 4. Febr. 304 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιος Ἀπόλλων Διδύμου μητρὸς Ἀρσινόης ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ Παοῦτι καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει ἀπὸ Δίννεως τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ὀφείλειν σοι ὑπὲρ ὧν ἠγόρασα καὶ ἐβάσταξα κρίμνου ψειέθων δύο ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν νομίσματος τάλαντα δέκα …