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Acknowledgement of an interest-bearing loan from the pankratiast Aurelius Phoibammon TM 22857Hermopolis29. Sept. 281

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A loan acknowledgement in which Aurelius Kornelios of Hermopolis confirms receiving 152 silver drachmas at interest from the champion pankratiast Aurelius Phoibammon, promising repayment within the same month. It was written at Hermopolis in AD 281 under the emperor Probus.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Kornelios son of Eudaimon, of Hermopolis, registered in the quarter of the West Fort, to Aurelius Phoibammon son of Posidonios, pankratiast, periodonikes, Roman citizen, crowned with gold, paradoxos, and however I am styled, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you, from hand to hand out of your house, an interest-bearing loan of a capital sum at interest of one drachma (per mina per month), of silver of the old Ptolemaic coinage, 152 drachmas, total 152 drachmas of silver, which I will also repay to you in the present month Phaophi of the current year 7 without delay, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property, as if by legal judgment; and being asked the formal question I gave my assent. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Germanicus Maximus Gothicus Maximus Parthicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Phaophi 2. I, Aurelius Kornelios son of Eudaimon, have received and will repay the 152 drachmas of silver as stated above.

Phoibammon's titles are athletic honours: a periodonikes had won at all the major games, and paradoxos marked an exceptional victor. 'Drachma interest' means the standard rate of 1 drachma per mina per month (12% a year).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 29. Sept. 281 · Hermopolis

Αὐρήλιος Κορνήλιος Εὐδαίμονος Ἑρμοπολείτης ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Φρουρίου Λιβὸς Αὐρηλίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι Ποσιδωνίου παγκρατιαστῇ περιοδονίκῃ Ῥωμαίῳ χρυσοστεφεῖ παραδόξῳ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου χρῆσιν ἔντοκον κεφαλαίου τόκων δραχμιαίω…