Bilingual record of the manumission of the slave Helene among friends TM 23523Hermopolis

Marcus Aurelius Ammonion, son of Lupergus son of Sarapion, his mother being Terheuta, of Hermopolis the Great, the ancient and splendid, manumitted among friends his house-born slave Helene, about 34 years old, and ordered that she be free, and he received for her freedom from Aurelius Ales son of Inarous, of the village of Tisichis in the Hermopolite nome, 2,200 Augustan drachmas, which Ales son of Inarous himself gave as a gift to Helene, the freedwoman written above. Done at Hermopolis the Great, the ancient and splendid, on the 7th day before the Kalends of August, in the consulship of Gratus and Seleucus, in year 4 of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, month of Mesore, day 1. I, Marcus Aurelius Ammonion son of Lupergus son of Sarapion, have freed among friends Helene, my house-born slave, about 34 years old, and I have received for her ransom 2,200 Augustan drachmas from Aurelius Ales son of Inarous, as stated above. I, Aurelius Ales son of Inarous, have paid out the 2,200 drachmas of silver and I will not proceed against Helene, the aforementioned freedwoman. I, Aurelius Ammonios son of Hermeinos, wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters.