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A receipt in which Marcus Aurelius Papirius, a former gymnasiarch and councillor of Arsinoe, acknowledges that Valerius Longinus has repaid 200 silver drachmas owed by his late father Herakleides under a written loan contract, and renounces all further claims. It dates to the 22nd year of Caracalla (AD 213), from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
A "double" handwritten contract (cheirographon disson) was a private agreement written out in two copies. The emperor named in the date is Caracalla; the end of the dating clause 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 Quittung über Rückzahlung eines Darlehens). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Παπίριος γυμνασιαρχήσας βουλευτὴς τῆς Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλεως Οὐαλερίῳ Λογγείνῳ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ ἃς ὤφειλεν ὁ πατήρ σου Ἡρακλείδης κατὰ χειρόγραφον δισσὸν ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς διακοσίας καὶ οὐδέν σοι ἐνκαλῶ περὶ οὐδενὸςἁπλῶς πράγματος ἢ ἐγγράφου ἢ ἀγράφου ἀπὸ τῶν ἔμ…
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