A receipt drawn up at Hermopolis in which Pasion, an officer of the Akoris garrison, acknowledges repayment of a loan of 81 artabas of wheat by Dionysios, his wife Isidora and his mother Sarapias, and renounces all further claims. The original loan had been registered on Choiak 6 of year 14 = year 11.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year […], at Hermopolis in the Thebaid.
Pasion also called Pasis, son of Petenephotes, Persian, hekatontarchos of the troop (hegemonia) of Asklepiades, of the Akoris garrison, acknowledges to Dionysios also called Plenis, son of Kephalas, Persian of the epigone, and to his wife Isidora also called Tasis, daughter of Hermophilos also called Pachois, and to the mother of the aforementioned Dionysios, Sarapias also called Senabellis, daughter of Heliodoros also called Herieus, both Persian women, with Dionysios, also co-borrower, as their guardian,
that he has received from them the 81 artabas of solid wheat, the loan which he lent them under the loan contract registered through the agoranomos office in Hermopolis in the Thebaid in year 14 which is also year 11, Choiak 6; and that neither Pasion himself nor anyone else on his behalf will proceed against Dionysios and Isidora and Sarapias, nor against those acting for them, concerning the aforesaid loan which he has received, nor concerning any part of it, on any pretext whatsoever; and if he does proceed, the action of Pasion and of anyone proceeding on his behalf shall be invalid, and Pasion shall pay to the borrowers, for whatever claim he makes, a penalty of […] talents of bronze and the damages […]
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[verso]
Agreement of receipt of a loan, of Pasion to Dionysios son of Kephalas, 81 artabas of wheat.
Much of the opening is restored from parallel documents of the same archive; the double regnal year (14 = 11) points to the joint reign of Ptolemy X and Cleopatra III, late 2nd century BC. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal-status label rather than ethnicity.
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 du prêt de blé no. 25). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.