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A model formula or draft for a loan acknowledgment, in which an unnamed borrower acknowledges receiving two gold solidi from a lender for personal need and undertakes to repay them. The names of the parties and the date are not included, and a similar formula seems to begin on the back. It dates to the 4th century AD; its place of origin is unknown.
The text lacks the parties' names and the date, so it appears to be a template or exercise rather than an executed contract. 'Nomismatia' are gold solidi, the standard late Roman gold coin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Formula of Receipt for a Loan of Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
On the recto there are no traces of letters above line 1. On the verso after chairein which apparently begins a similar formula, uncertain traces of letters remain. To this formula the actual receipt would add at the beginning the names of those concerned, and at the end the date…
[r] χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ ἐν χρήσει διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου σου εἰς ἰδίαν μου καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χρείαν χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια ἁπλᾶ δεσποτικὰ δόκιμα εὔσταθμα ἀριθμῷ δύο γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια β ἅπερ τοῦ χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο ἀκίνδυνα ὄντα ἀπὸ παντὸς κινδύνου ἐπάναγκον σοι [v] …
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