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Handwritten acknowledgment of a deposit of 40 drachmas, in which the depositary promises to repay the money on demand according to the law of deposits, with the creditor's right of execution on his person and property. It is dated in the reign of Caracalla, 24 August 212, in the Arsinoite nome; the docket on the back names Panakas, a linen-weaver.
A cheirographon was a private contract written as a personal statement, here valid in a single copy. The line after the date is abbreviated and its sense is uncertain.
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.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]κον ε…[…] παρὰ ἐμαυτῷ καὶ ἀποδώσω σοι, ὁπηνίκα βουληθῇς, τὸ προκίμενον πη[…] τας δραχμὰς τεσσαράκοντα ἄνευ δίκης καὶ κρίσεως καὶ πάσης εὑρησιλογίας κατὰ τὸν τῶν παραθηκῶν νόμον, γινομένης σοι τῆς πράξεως ἔκ τε ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων μοι πάντων καθάπε…
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