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Application to the property record office to register a mortgage of catoecic land TM 11539Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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Application to the keepers of the property records at Tebtynis by Tephorsais, with her brother as guardian, to register a mortgage of 2 arouras of catoecic land in favour of Didyme as security for a debt of 372 silver drachmas plus interest. It asks that no other transaction be registered on the land until the debt is repaid. It is endorsed by the official Flavius Dios.

In English machine translation

I, Flavius Dios, have signed. Year 7 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Tybi 18. To Flavius Domitius and Sabinus also called Thrakidas, former gymnasiarchs, keepers of the property records, from Tephorsais daughter of Kronion son of Cheos, her mother being Thenapynchis, from the village of Tebtynis, with her guardian, her brother Harphaesis. Of the 4 arouras of catoecic allotment and 1/4 aroura of village assignment near the village of Tebtynis which I registered through the earlier (officials) and within the appointed period, I wish voluntarily and of my own free choice to mortgage 2 arouras of catoecic allotment on the southern side to Didyme daughter of Heron son of Amais, against the 372 drachmas of silver capital and the interest which I, together with my sister Taorsenouphis, owe her under a security agreement; and that no business whatsoever be registered on my behalf against these (arouras) when I make any transaction, whether for alienation or for conveyance, until I repay what is owed and receive the proper receipt. Therefore I submit this mortgage.

Such an application is called a parathesis, a request to note an encumbrance in the property register (bibliotheke enkteseon). Catoecic land was originally allotted to military settlers and remained a privileged category of private land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Richiesta di parathesis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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