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Acknowledgement of debt in wheat and barley owed by a deacon TM 23588Hermopolis18. Okt. 491

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A deacon, son of Herais, acknowledges a debt of 4 artabas of wheat and 3 1/2 artabas of barley, owed from crop rents of the 15th indiction, to a man connected with the physician Phoibammon of Hermopolis. He promises to repay in kind in Epeiph from the next harvest. The document was drawn up at Hermopolis in October 491.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavius Longinus, vir clarissimus, for the 2nd time, Phaophi 20, 15th indiction. [So-and-so, son of …]…s, his mother being Herais, deacon from […] … to […] (?) son of Phoibammon, physician, from the city of the Hermopolitans, greetings. I acknowledge that I owe you and am indebted to you […] from the rents of the crops of the fifteenth indiction, as principal, 4 artabas of wheat [and] 3 1/2 artabas [of barley], total 4 artabas of wheat and [3 1/2 artabas of barley], which I will measure out and repay to you in the month of Epeiph from the harvest of the crops of the prosperous [first indiction] in mixed wheat and barley, new, clean, sifted, [by the] Athenian [measure], without any dispute [or lawsuit or any] judgment. If I do not repay […]

The names of the debtor and creditor are largely lost; the creditor appears to be the son of the physician Phoibammon. The Athenian measure was a standard grain measure used in contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricognizione di debito di generi). 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 · 18. Okt. 491 · Hermopolis

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Λογγίνου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου τὸ β Φαῶφι κ ιε ἰνδικτίονος. ὁ δεῖνα[…]…ς μητρὸς Ἡραίδος διάκονος ἀπὸ […]……ακτορι…αμμωνος […]Φοιβάμμονος ἰατροῦ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμοπολίτων χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ὀφείλειν σοι καὶ χρεωστεῖν[…]…ος ἐκφορίων καρπῶν πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος κεφ…