One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33294

Acknowledgment of a deposit of money by the cavalryman Julius Syrion TM 33294unbekanntfrühes IV

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Opening of a deposit-type acknowledgment of debt by Julius Syrion, a cavalryman in a Roman cavalry squadron, to a woman acting without a guardian under the Roman right of children. He acknowledges receiving over 8,200 drachmas of new silver coinage, plus a further 2,000 drachmas; the rest is lost.

In English machine translation

Julius Syrion, cavalryman of the turma of Herennius L[…], to […], who transacts business without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children, greetings. I acknowledge that I have from you on deposit, free of every risk and not subject to any deduction, 8,200[…] drachmas of silver of the new coinage […] one, and 2,000 drachmas […] [… 1 line lost …]

The 'right of children' (ius liberorum) let a woman with enough children act legally without a male guardian. The record calls it a loan contract; the text frames it as a deposit (parathēkē), a common way of documenting loans.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Loan). 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.aberd.180

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · frühes IV

Ἰούλιος Συρίων ἱππεὺς τύρμης Ἑρεννίου Λ[…] χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματιζούσῃ κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη τέκνων δικαίῳ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἔχειν παρὰσοῦ ἐν παραθήκῃ ἀκίνδυνον παντὸς κινδύνου ἀνυπόλογον παντὸς ὑπολόγου ἀργυρίου καινοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς ὀκτακισχιλίας διακοσίας[…] ἕν καὶ δραχμὰς δισχ…