p.heid.10.453
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ θεοῦ Καισ[…] Αὐρήλιος Σενούθ υἱὸς τοῦ μακαρίου […] τοῦ μακαρίου Θωμᾶ ἀπὸ τοῦ …[…] ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι […] εἰς ἰδίαν καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χρείαν […] …[…] […]θε…[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 381912
Acknowledgment of debt by Aurelius Senouth TM 381912Herakleopolites (?)ca. 653 (?)
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Opening of a loan acknowledgment in which Aurelius Senouth, son of a deceased man and descendant of the late Thomas, declares that he has received something for his own pressing need. It probably dates to around AD 653, early in the Arab period, and may come from the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
† In the name of God, Caes[…]
Aurelius Senouth, son of the blessed […] […]
of the blessed Thomas, from the […] [I acknowledge that I have received] […] [for my own]
[and] pressing need […]
[…]
[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The descriptive record calls this a Greek and Coptic acknowledgment of debt from the Arab period, but only the Greek opening survives here. The word after 'God' probably began a regnal or dating formula; the rest of it is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Griechischer und koptischer Schuldschein aus arabischer Zeit). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.