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Loan of 40 drachmas secured on a plot at Karanis TM 12058Hiera Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 20, 89[?] A.D.

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End of a loan contract in which Papeeis son of Psenobastis acknowledges borrowing 40 silver drachmas from Sarapion son of Sarapion, to be repaid in the month Soterios. As security he may not sell or mortgage his quarter share of an empty plot in Karanis until repayment; the contract was registered at Hiera Nesos in AD 89.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… 1 line lost …] [which] the acknowledging party [shall] also of necessity [repay] to Sarapion [in the month] Soterios of the current [sixth year] of Imperator Caesar D[omitianus Augustus] Germanicus, without any delay or evasion. If the acknowledging party does not repay the silver drachmas as written, let him pay Sarapion forthwith the money with half as much again and interest, Sarapion having the right of execution upon the acknowledging party and upon all his property, as if by legal judgment. And it shall not be permitted to the acknowledging party from now on to sell or mortgage or otherwise dispose of the fourth share of an unbuilt plot belonging to him in the village of Karanis until he repays the aforementioned money. Subscribers: for the acknowledging party, Pasion son of Ptolemaios, about 34 years old, with a scar on the inside of the left forearm; for the other, Isidoros son of Alexandros, about 66 years old, with a scar on the right knee. I, Papeeis son of Psenobastis, Persian of the epigone, acknowledge that I have from Sarapion son of Sarapion a loan of 40 silver drachmas, which I shall also repay in the month Soterios of the current sixth year without any delay or evasion, as stated above. Pasion son of Ptolemaios wrote for him because he does not know letters. I, Serapion son of Serapion: the acknowledgment has been made to me as stated above. Isidoros son of Alexandros wrote for him, as he does not know letters. Year 6 of Domitian, month Domitianos 23. Registered through the record office in Hiera Nesos. [verso] Acknowledgment of Papeeis to Sarapion of a loan of 40 silver drachmas.

Soterios and Domitianos are honorific month names used under Domitian (Domitianos = Phaophi). 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status designation for debtors in Roman Egypt.

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

Contract of Loan on Security

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 5769 · October 20, 89[?] A.D. · Hiera Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

End of an acknowledgment made by Papeeis son of Psenobastis to Sarapion son of Sarapion that he owes him 40 silver drachmai, for which some property in Karanis is used as a security

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Okt. 89 · Hiera Nesos (Arsinoites)

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