A bank document from Karanis recording the repayment of a loan of 408 silver drachmas between two women, Valeria Diodora and Tasoucharion, each acting with a male guardian, made through the bank of Sabinus. It cancels the earlier loan agreement of year 2 of Antoninus Pius. Dated 20 June 141.
In English machine translation
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Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pauni 26.
Through the bank of Sabinus at Athena's (quarter?).
Valeria Diodora, with her guardian, her husband Limnaios son of Petheus, to Tasoucharion daughter of Ptolemaios son of Onnophris, aged about 34, without distinguishing marks, with her guardian, her kinsman Pasion son of Sokrates son of […], aged about 26, a scar on the middle of the forehead: that she has received from Valeria Diodora the 408 drachmas of silver which she owed her under a loan security executed in the second year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the month Kaisareios, on the thirtieth, which is also void together with the stipulations recorded in it, and that she makes no claim […]
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The direction of payment in the text is confused: the formula says Tasoucharion received from Diodora what she owed her, so the roles of creditor and debtor are unclear as preserved. 'At Athena's' probably refers to a bank location or quarter named after the goddess's temple.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as bgu.2.472_2). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.