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Loan of gold solidi secured by a mortgage on land TM 15489Taparou (Hermopolites, Ägypten)7. Juli 501

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Loan contract with a mortgage in which Aurelia Thekla of the village of Taparou in the Hermopolite nome acknowledges borrowing 2 1/2 gold solidi from Flavius Athanasios, a former standard-bearer of the Mauri unit from Hermopolis. As security she pledges half an aroura of land. It is dated 7 July 501.

In English machine translation

[recto] χμγ After the consulship of Flavius Patricius, the most magnificent and most glorious general, and Hypatius, and of the one to be proclaimed, Epeiph 13, 10th indiction. Aurelia Thekla, daughter of Pekys, her mother being Eus, from the village of Taparou in the Hermopolite nome, to Flavius Athanasios son of Paneus, former draconarius of the most noble Mauri, from Hermopolis, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and borrowed from you, for my own personal and pressing need, from hand to hand out of your house, as capital […] of gold, two and a half solidi in number, total 2 1/2 gold solidi. For your security and the repayment of the aforesaid debt I hereby mortgage to you half an aroura in the tax district of […] [… lines lost …] [verso] Bond of Thekla daughter of Pekys from the village of Taparou

The opening χμγ is a common Christian symbol of uncertain meaning, often read as an isopsephy. A draconarius was a standard-bearer carrying a dragon banner in the late Roman army.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehen mit Hypothek). 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 501 · Taparou (Hermopolites, Ägypten)

[r] χμγ μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουί Πατρικίου τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου καὶ ἐνδοξοτάτου στρατηγοῦ καὶ Ὑπατίου καὶ τοῦ δηλωθησομένου Ἐπεὶφ ιγ ι ἰνδικτίονος. Αὐρηλία Θέκλα Πέκυτος μητρὸς Εὖτος ἀπὸ κώμης Ταπαρώου τοῦ Ἑρμουπολίτου νομοῦ Φλαουίῳ Ἀθανασίῳ Πανεῦτος ἀποδρακωναρίῳ τῶν γενναιωτάτ…