Opening of a bank transfer document (diagraphe) issued through the bank of Areios near the Gate of Demetrios. It records an interest-bearing loan of 100 silver drachmas from Chairemon son of Chairemon to Pakysis son of Horos, of Berenikis in the Arsinoite nome. It is dated 28 January AD 129.
In English machine translation
Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 3, through the bank of Areios near the gate of Demetrios. Chairemon son of Chairemon, to Pakysis son of Horos son of Orseus, from the village of Berenikis in the division of Polemon, aged about 42, with a scar […]
[…] that he has received from Chairemon an interest-bearing loan of a principal of 100 silver drachmas
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A diagraphe is a bank's written record of a payment made through it, here serving as the documentation of a loan. The Gate of Demetrios was probably a gate of the nome capital, Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bank Diagraphe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.