Bank payment of an earnest by a priestess of Soknopaiou Nesos to a legionary TM 9729Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)ca. 168

A bank payment record (diagraphe) made through the bank of Ptolemaios, dated to the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Stotoetis, a priestess from Soknopaiou Nesos, acting with her brother Panephremmis as guardian, pays 1,400 silver drachmas as a non-refundable earnest to Gaius Julius Ammonius, a soldier of the Second Legion Traiana Fortis.

In English machine translation

An arrabon is an earnest or down payment securing a sale; here it is declared non-refundable, and the total price is lost. The purpose of the purchase is not preserved.

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.