Application by Apollonides of Oxyrhynchus to the keepers of the property records to register a lien on the property of the freedman Myrtilos, to whom he had lent 160 drachmas at interest. He also declares earlier liens registered against Myrtilos's property, including one on a small house in the Talao quarter. Probably written in AD 163-164 at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
Submitted.
To Theon and Heradion, keepers of the records (bibliophylakes),
from Apollonides son of Leonides, his mother being Thaesis, from the city of Oxyrhynchus.
By a loan made through the notarial office of Talao in the present fourth year, in Phaophi, I lent to Myrtilos, freedman of Heliodoros son of Diodoros, from the same city, 160 drachmas of silver as capital, at interest of 1 drachma per mina per month, from the same Phaophi to the deadline of the thirtieth of Phamenoth of the same fourth year, it being specified that I should have the right of execution against all his property and that I may, whenever I wish, register a lien through the same record office against the name of Myrtilos until I recover payment. Wishing this lien to be made, I submit this memorandum as is proper, and I declare that there have been prior liens registered through the same record office: on the epagomenal days of the ninth year of the deified Aelius Antoninus, by Demetria daughter of Artemon son of […]…esis, for 200 drachmas of capital at interest of 1 drachma, on a small house with its fixtures in the Talao quarter, in the northern parts of the street of Isis; and in Pauni of the twelfth year of the deified Aelius Antoninus, by Apollonios son of Amois son of Harpaesion […]
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The 'record office' is the bibliotheke enkteseon, the archive of property ownership where liens (katochai) were registered. The 'fourth year' is presumably that of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for the Registration of a Lien). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.