Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens

English translation

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 8) Chaeremon son of Sarapion son of ..., his mother being Taplutas, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, to Tryphon son of Heraclides son of ... on, his mother being Taapollonides, of the said city, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received from you, who are making payment of your own accord before the appointed term, through the bank at the Serapeum at Oxyrhynchus of Phanias, ex-chief priest, and Ptolemaeus, the overseers associated with Audasius Paulinus, the capital sum of six hundred silver drachmae with the interest thereon up to the present time at the rate of two drachmae per month, which sum was lent you by me in accordance with a note of hand through the said bank on the intercalary days of the second year of Antoninus and Verus, lords and Emperors, until ...