An acknowledgement of debt in which tenant farmers declare that they owe Theon, a former high priest of the Hadrianeum at Oxyrhynchus, 9 artabas of wheat, 5 artabas of lentils and 112 drachmas in arrears of rent, promising repayment by Mesore 30 of the 11th year. It dates to AD 202-203 at Oxyrhynchus.
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[...]...[...] from the city of Oxyrhynchus, former high priest of the most august Hadrianeum in the same city, greetings. We acknowledge that we owe you, from rents and dues in kind for the lands of yours which we were farming, 9 artabas of wheat and 5 artabas of lentils and 112 silver drachmas, all of which we will repay to you by the 30th of Mesore of the present 11th year, the produce by your, Theon's, receiving measure. If we do not repay within the stated term, we will pay you for the time exceeding it an increment on the produce of one quarter, and on the money interest of a drachma (per mina per month), the right of execution being yours against us, who are mutual sureties for payment, or against whichever of us you choose. This document, written in duplicate, is valid wherever produced and
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The 'drachma interest' means one drachma per mina per month, i.e. 12% a year; the penalty on produce is a one-quarter (hemiolion-type) increment. The Hadrianeum was the temple of the imperial cult of Hadrian.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of Indebtedness). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.