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p.mert.3.109 IIOxyrhynchites

Loan on Security via HGV-meta

Loan secured on three arouras of land, with Ophelas as creditor. Fragment of a loan contract from the Oxyrhynchite nome in the 2nd century AD, in which three arouras of land serve as security for a loan from a man named Ophelas. If the borrower fails to repay, Ophelas may take possession of the land and its produce permanently; the borrower guarantees the land free of claims and taxes and faces penalties for breach. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]… […]…[…]δραχμὰς[…]οσίας ὀκτὼ […]ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀποδῷ καθὰ γέγραπται ἐξέστω τῷ Ὠφελᾶτι[…]…κου καὶ πρ…ς…[…]ἐνβαδεύειν […]τὰς προκειμένας ἀρούρας καὶ κρατεῖν […]σὺν τοῖς παρʼ αὐτοῦ μεταληψομένοις εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον καὶ ἀποφέρεσθαι τὰ ἐξ αὐτῶν κατʼ ἔτος γινόμενα καὶ […]τωνωσε…[…]…δανεισμεν…[…]ρη […] μήτε ἐπὶ τὸν Ὠφελᾶν μήτε ἐπὶ τοὺς παρʼ αὐτου μήτε ἐπὶ τὰς ἀρούρας μηδὲ ἐπὶ μέρος μηδὲ ἐπὶ τὰ ἐξ αὐτῶν γινόμενα τρόπῳ μηδενί, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπάναγκον παρέξεσθαι τῷ Ὠφελᾶτι καὶ τοῖς παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς τρεῖς ἀρούρας διὰ παντὸς βεβαίας ἀπὸ πάντων πάσῃ βεβαιώσει καθαρὰς ἀπὸ δημοσίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τελεσμάτων πάντων ἀπὸ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν χρόνων μέχρι τῆς σεσημαμμένης προθεσμίας καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς προθεσμίας, ἐὰν δέ τι τούτων ὁ δεδανεισμένος παρασυνγραφῇ ἄκυρονἔστω καὶ προσαποτισάτωτῷ Ὠφελᾶτι ἢ τοῖς παρʼ αὐτοῦ καθʼ ὃ ἐὰν παρασυγγραφῇ εἶδος τό τε βλάβος καὶ ἐπίτιμον ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς τριακοσίας καὶ εἰς τὸ δημόσιον τὰς ἴσας, τὸ δὲ ἀργύριον παραχρῆμα μεθʼ ἡμιολίας σὺν τοῖς καθήκουσι χρόνου ἀφʼ οὗ ἐὰν παρασυνγραφῇ τόκοις καὶ ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω τῷ Ὠφελᾶτι ἐκ τοῦ δεδανεισμένου καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ πάντων καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης. τῶν τελῶν καὶ […]καταλοχισμῶν τῆς ἐσομένης […]ἀμφοτέρους ἐξ ἴσου διὰ τὸ αὐτοὺς δεδωκέναι[…]τοὺς καταλοχισμοὺς καὶ τὰ τῆς θέσεως […]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] eight [...]hundred (?) drachmas [...] [...] but if he does not repay as written, let it be permitted to Ophelas [...] ... and ... [...] to enter upon the aforesaid arouras and to hold them [...] together with those who will succeed him for all time, and to carry off the produce arising from them each year, and [...] ... lent (?) [...] [...] neither against Ophelas nor against those deriving from him, nor against the arouras, nor against any part of them, nor against the produce arising from them, in any manner; but he shall also of necessity guarantee to Ophelas and those deriving from him the three arouras, always secure against all claims with every guarantee, free from public dues and all other taxes from former times up to the stated term and including the term itself. And if the borrower contravenes any of these things, it shall be invalid, and he shall additionally pay to Ophelas or those deriving from him, for whatever point he contravenes, the damages and a penalty of 300 silver drachmas and an equal amount to the public treasury, and the money immediately with half as much again, together with the appropriate interest for the time from when he contravenes; and let Ophelas have the right of execution upon the borrower and upon all his property, as if by a court judgment. Of the taxes and [...] of the registrations in the cavalry allotments (?) of the coming [...] both parties equally, because they have given [...] the registrations and the costs of the deposit [...] [...]

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