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Receipt for repayment of a loan of 250 artabas of wheat TM 3102Hermopolis

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A receipt drawn up at Hermopolis in which Didymos acknowledges that Dionysios son of Kephalas and his mother Demetria have repaid a loan of 250 artabas of wheat, originally registered at the local notarial office in year 7. Didymos renounces any further claim on pain of a fine of 125 talents of bronze.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year […], in Hermopolis of the Thebaid. Didymos […] acknowledges to Dionysios son of Kephalas, Persian of the Epigone, and to his mother Demetria, that he has received from them the 250 artabas, the loan which he lent them according to a contract of loan registered through the agoranomeion in Hermopolis of the Thebaid in year 7, Thoth 9. And neither Didymos himself nor anyone else on his behalf shall proceed against Dionysios and Demetria, nor against their representatives, concerning the aforementioned wheat which he has received, nor concerning any part of it, on any pretext whatsoever. If he does proceed, the claim of Didymos and of anyone proceeding on his behalf shall be invalid, and Didymos shall pay in addition to Dionysios and Demetria or their representatives, for each claim he makes, a fine of 125 talents of bronze and the damages, and this agreement shall be valid nonetheless. [verso] Agreement of Didymos with Dionysios and Demetria, receipt for a loan of 250 artabas of wheat.

"Persian of the Epigone" is a Ptolemaic legal status designation, often used for debtors, with no exact English equivalent. The agoranomeion was the public notarial office where contracts were registered.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittance de remboursement d’un prêt de blé). 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 · Hermopolis

[r] ἔτους[…], ἐν Ἑρμοῦ πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος ὁμολογεῖ Δίδυμος[…]Διονυσίωι Κεφαλᾶτος Πέρσηι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ τῆι μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Δημητρίαι ἀπέχειν παρʼ αὐτῶν τὰς σν ἀρτάβας, τὸ δάνειον ὃ ἐδάνεισεν αὐτοῖς κατὰ συγγραφὴν δανείου τὴν κειμένην διὰ τοῦ ἐν Ἑρμοῦ πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος ἀγορανομίου …