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A loan contract in which Aeos son of Horos, of Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, acknowledges receiving an interest-bearing loan of silver drachmas from Flavius Saturnilus, to be repaid in the following regnal year. It was drawn up in AD 215 under Caracalla.
The amount of the loan and the month of repayment are lost. Kaisareios was the Roman-era name for the Egyptian month Mesore; the epagomenal days are the five extra days at the end of the year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους τρίτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σευήρου Ἀντωνίνου Παρθικοῦ μεγίστου Βρεταννικοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μεγίστου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Καισαρίου Μεσορὴ ἐπαγομένων γ. προσεφώνησεν καὶ ὡμολόγησεν Ἀεως Ὥρου τοῦ Ὀρσενούφεως ἀπὸ κώμης Θεαδελφίας τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδ…
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