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Additional registration of land held as security for a loan TM 14252Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)7. Juli 100

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An additional property declaration submitted to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome by Theodoros son of Akousilaos. He registers land of 2 arouras near Mouchis that he has received from a woman named Apollous as security for a loan of 252 drachmas for ten months at 1% monthly interest. It was filed on 7 July AD 100 at Ptolemais Euergetis.

In English machine translation

1. Registered (?) in year 3 of Trajan, Epeiph 13. To Sokrates, former gymnasiarch, and Antipatros, keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, from Theodoros son of Akousilaos, also called Theodoros, registered in the quarter of Dionysios' Places. In addition to what I have already registered, I register further also the security (mesiteia) which I received on the present day from Apollous daughter of Dioskoros son of […], registered in the quarter […], registered […] of the same month of the same year […] with her guardian […] of 2 arouras […] at Mouchis in the Polemon division, against a capital sum of 252 silver drachmas for ten months from the present month Epeiph, at interest of one drachma per mina each month. Therefore I submit the additional registration. Ptolemaios, signed. Registered in year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, Epeiph 13.

Mesiteia is a form of fiduciary security in which property is held as a pledge for a debt. The interest of one drachma per mina per month is 12% a year.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anmeldung (προσαπογραφή) eines fiduziarischen Grundstückerwerbs bei der βιβλιοθήκη ἐγκτήσεων). 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 · 7. Juli 100 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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