Acknowledgement of debt with guarantor for a purchase price TM 38162OxyrhynchosVI

Fragment of a 6th-century acknowledgement of debt from Oxyrhynchus, in which Aurelius Petros son of Patas, with the priest Aurelius Victor as guarantor, admits owing money to a woman (addressed as 'your reverence'), apparently a relative or heir of the late Ioustos, for the price of something she sold him. The terms of repayment are lost.

In English machine translation

The creditor is a woman addressed with the honorific 'your reverence', possibly a religious woman; her name and the item sold are lost. The phrase 'of ... memory' refers to the deceased Ioustos, probably her late husband or father.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anerkennung einer Schuld mit Bürgschaft). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.