One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25876

Acknowledgement of a loan of 16 silver drachmas through a bank at the Oxyrhynchus Sarapeion TM 25876Oxyrhynchos1. Hälfte I

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Fragment of a loan contract in which a person registered as a 'Persian of the Epigone' acknowledges receiving 16 silver drachmas from […]on, paid through the bank of […]on son of Isidoros at the Sarapeion of Oxyrhynchus. It dates to the first half of the 1st century AD.

In English machine translation

[…]s, Persian of the Epigone, (daughter?) of Thompekysis, to […]on, greetings. I acknowledge that I have from [you through the] bank of […]on son of Isidoros [at the] Sarapeion near the city of the Oxyrhynchi, 16 drachmas of silver [of Augustan coinage], 16 drachmas of silver […]

'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status label common in loan documents, often marking the borrower as subject to stricter enforcement. Thompekysis is probably the borrower's parent or guardian; the relationship is lost in the gap.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prêt d’argent). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.ifao.3.30

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte I · Oxyrhynchos

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