Order [April 5, 43 AD]APIScolumbia.apis.p283(NNC)aaa1207p.col.10.2500094;10;250p.col;10;2501055510555Col.inv. 389Order to the banker Akousilaos to pay a sum of 2,606 drachmas to Herakleides and his sisters, Nikostrate and Aphrodisia; the sum is a loan on some katoikic land owned by the three partiesThe papyrus is incomplete on the top left corner and shows some holes and an abraded surface; is written along the fibers; the back is blank25 lines of writing in an uneven and unprofessional hand; the letters are large and mostly unligatured as in an epistolary handThe hand and the absence of signature and banker's notations seem to point to a private copy of the originalIn Greek1papyrus ; 11.3 x 22.7 cm43 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from Dr. Kondilios through H.I. Bell in December 1926; no. 157 in Bell's inventory
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishIn GreekOrder for paymentPapyri
[Name] to Akousilaos (son of ?), banker, greetings. Pay to Herakleides [son of . . .] and his sisters by the same father and mother, Aphrodisia and Nikostrate, with their guardians, for Aphrodisia her husband Markion alias Diogenes, son of Herakleides, for Nikostrate her kinsman Dionysios son of [. . .]philos, as a loan . . . on the fifteen arouras of a katoikic kleros belonging to them, or however many arouras they may be, near Philadelphia, in the Herakleides division, in accordance with the security-agreement executed to me through the grapheion in Philadelphia, two thousand six hundred six drachmas of silver, that is, 2,606 dr., apart from other sums that they owe. Year three of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pharmouthi 10.