Acknowledgment of DebtAntonius HeronianusAPISmichigan.apis.3008(MiU)30086990169901c.ep.lat;;154P.Mich.inv. 6897Canceled acknowledgment made by a cavalryman, for a loan given to him by a fellow cavalrymanLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto; Verso is blankLatin; Greek1 papyrus ; 22 x 13.5 cmbroken off on the right sides; many holes13Source of description: Recto
Latin bureaucratic cursive (Bruckner-Marichal); 2nd hand (Greek) of a slow-writer
August 8, 140 A.D.castellum Net[- - -], province of Egypt(?)Antonius Heronianus, eques of the cohors I Lusitanorum(?) (see also P.Fouad 45)Marius, (former centurion of the cohors I Lusitanorum[?])Iulius Serenus, eques of the cohors I LusitanorumAntoninus Pius (Emperor) and Marcus Aurelius, consuls
Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishLatinGreekLusitani(?); castellum Net[- - -]ArmyDebtDocumentaryPapyrus
Antonius Heronianus, cavalryman of the First cohort of the Lusitani(?), centuria(?) Mariana, to Iulius Serenus [- - -], cavalryman [of the same cohort], faithful greeting. [I acknowledge that I] have received and owe (you) seventy(?) silver denarii, which I shall give back after receiving my pay, with the interests, to you or to your agent or heir. Iulius Serenus, cavalryman, exacted this promise; Antonius Heronianus has made this pledge for 70(?) silver denarii on the day written below. Made in the garrison of Net[- - -], in the detachment of the aforementioned cohort, 6 days before the Ides of August, [under the consulship of the Emperor Antoninus] Augustus Pius, for the third time, and of Aurelius Caesar, [son of] Augustus [(Antoninus) Pius].;(2nd hand, in Greek) I, Antonius Heronianus, [have received] the 70(?) [silver denarii] as a loan and shall give them back [as aforesaid].