Receipt from Oxyrhynchus in which the heirs of Onnophris acknowledge repayment, through the Sarapeion bank, of a loan of 100 silver drachmas their father had made under a handwritten contract. They declare the original document lost and void and renounce further claims.
In English machine translation
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We acknowledge that we have received [from you]
through Heliodoros and Noumenios
at the bank at the Sarapeion near Oxyrhynchus city
100 drachmas [of silver] of principal, [which]
our aforementioned [father]
Onnophris lent [to you]
according to a handwritten contract made through [the same]
bank [in] former times, which [we declare]
has been lost, and [that we] make no claim against you about anything [at all]
up to the [present day],
but also that we are [obliged at all times]
to guarantee to you what has been agreed with every guarantee up to the [present day, and]
that [the loan document] is invalid for us [and for anyone who] produces it.
The receipt is valid. [Year …] [of Imperator]
Caesar […]
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The lost loan document (cheirographon) is declared invalid should anyone produce it. Much of the wording is restored from standard formulas; the date is lost apart from an imperial titulature.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.