A loan acknowledgement in which the soldier Flavius Psenoserios son of Anoubion admits owing the notary Ioannes son of Akindynos six gold solidi less 14 3/4 carats, with interest paid yearly in wine measured by the standard of the monastery of Abba Agenes. The head of that monastery, the priest Kyriakos, witnesses it; it is dated Phaophi 3 of a 4th indiction, probably at Apollonopolis Heptakomias.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† To my lord and esteemed brother Ioannes son of Akindynos, venerable notary, from the city of the Apollonopolitans, from Flavius Psenoserios son of Anoubion, soldier, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge by this my written security that I owe and am indebted to your venerability, unconditionally, for my own personal and pressing need, as capital, of gold six imperial plain approved solidi less fourteen and a half and a quarter carats by your standard, total 6 gold solidi less 14 3/4 carats; and I am ready, God willing, to pay these to your excellence whenever you wish, together with their interest (paramythia), that is, each year for each solidus 5 kolobia of pure and unadulterated wine by the measure of the holy monastery of Abba Agenes, until repayment and completion of the aforewritten six solidi, without any pretext or delay, at my own risk and from the resources of my property. And for your security I have made this security for you, and it is written wholly in my own hand. I have issued it as stated above.
I, Flavius Psenosoerios, soldier, the aforewritten, the security for the six solidi less 14 3/4 carats is satisfactory to me, and I will repay these with the interest as stated above.
I, Kyriakos, priest and head of the holy monastery of Abba Agenes, bear witness to the security, having heard it from the party who made it; the former note of mine for one solidus clearly remaining valid.
Likewise I, Psenosoerios: it is satisfactory to me.
† Written Phaophi 3, 4th indiction.
[verso]
[…] of Psenoserios […]
The interest (paramythia, literally 'consolation') is paid in kind: 5 kolobia of wine per solidus per year. The witness's clause apparently confirms that an earlier note of debt for one solidus remains valid.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.