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A notarial acknowledgment from Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome in which the freedman Gaius Eros confirms that the three sons of Chairemon, Apollonios, Sokrates and Artemidoros, have repaid through a bank a loan of 3,000 drachmas. He promises not to bring any further claim and returns the loan contract for cancellation.
Year 37 of Augustus is counted from his conquest of Egypt ('dominion of Caesar'); the Macedonian month Hyperberetaios here corresponds to Mesore. The end of the document, probably a penalty clause, is too damaged to translate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
ἔτους ἑβδόμῳ καὶ τριακοστῷ τῆς Καίσαρος κρατήσεως θεοῦ υἱοῦ μηνὸς Ὑπερβερεταίου […] ἐν Πτολεμάιδι Εὐεργέτιδι τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Γαῖος Ἔρως ἀπελεύθερος Ἔρωτος Ἀπολλωνίωι καὶ Σωκράτηι καὶ Ἀρτεμιδώρωι τοῖς τρισὶ Χαιρήμονος ἀπέχειν παρʼ αὐτῶν διὰ τῆς […]τραπέζης[…]… τρισ…
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