Fragment of a register of abstracts (eiromenon) of contracts drawn up at a record office in the Arsinoite nome in the early 2nd century AD. The entries summarize a loan, dowry repayments by husbands to wives, a release of a guardian from claims, a bank receipt cancelling a debt, and a lease.
In English machine translation
[…] […]ekonkoth, aged about 27, with a scar under the right eyebrow, to Akousilaos son of Ptolemaios […]
[…] from Akousilaos according to a loan executed through the same record office on the 29th […]
[…] he will repay. The rest accordingly. Through Apion son of Gymnasios.
[…] to his wife living with him, Phelikla daughter of Sambas, aged about 45, without distinguishing marks, with as guardian her kinsman […]
[…] that she has received from the dowry which the same Ammonios owes her according to an acknowledged marriage contract executed before […]
[…] but he will repay the whole dowry immediately, and in case of a voluntary separation […] within days […]
[…] to his wife living with him, Thaubarion, aged about 46, without distinguishing marks, with as guardian her father Sarapion son of Ptolemaios […]
[…] that she has received from the dowry which the same Ptolemaios owes her according to a contract executed through the same record office of the quarter […]
[…] of Sarapion son of Ptolemaios, two other children by each other, Sarapion and Thaubarion also called Bernik[…]
[…] and he arranged. The rest accordingly. Through Apion son of Gymnasios.
[…] with as guardian her paternal cousin, who is also the husband of her sister Zosime, Theon son of Demetrios, aged about 46 […]
[…] that neither she nor those claiming through her will proceed against him concerning the matters for which he was registered as her guardian, in any manner whatever, of the still […]
[…] the one also giving, having received nothing, at the request of the registered guardian; likewise not concerning […]
Through […]krates.
[…] aged about 58, with a scar under the chin, to Herakleides son of Mysthes, aged about 55, without distinguishing marks, that he has received from him through the bank of Polykrates […]
[…] of the deified Trajan, in the month Phaophi, which he has also returned to him for cancellation, […] drachmas, concerning which he has received […]
[…] aged about 50, with a scar on the right eyebrow, to Pauites son of Pauineus from the village of Kaminoi, aged about […]
[…] to him and to his brother Hestiaios jointly […]
[…] to the lessee […]
[…] of the farmstead of the granary and public rents […]
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An eiromenon is a record office's running register of summarized contracts; entries are signed off 'through' the clerk who drew them up. Names and ages at the line beginnings are lost or garbled.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di εἰρόμενον). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.