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Loan of money with pledge of a farmstead by Aurelia Charite TM 15613Hermopolis

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A loan contract from Hermopolis in which Aurelia Charite, daughter of a former town councillor, acknowledges borrowing 640 silver talents with interest from Aurelius Dios, to be repaid in Tybi. She pledges as security a farmstead with a cellar, hay-store and wells inherited from her father in the Western Fort quarter.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, former councillor of Hermopolis, to Aurelius Dios, son of Helladios, former councillor of the same city. I acknowledge that I have received and had measured out to me from you, from your house, an interest-bearing loan, the interest being included with the principal, of 640 talents of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, total 640 talents, which I will repay to you in the coming month of Tybi without delay. When the due date arrives, if I do not repay, I will acknowledge interest to you for the time exceeding it until repayment. For the payment of these sums I hereby pledge to you as security the farmstead which came to me by inheritance from my late father, in the Western Fort quarter, in which there are an exedra, a cellar, a hay-store and wells of baked brick; its neighbours are: to the south, the sons of Anos son of Ammonon, tow-worker; to the north, a public lane; to the east, myself, Charite; to the west, another public lane. This farmstead I will keep unencumbered by any other loan and […] [… lines lost …] [verso] Note of hand of Charite daughter of Amazonios: principal with interest included, 640 talents. Tybi 7, indiction […]

The hypallagma is a form of security in which property is pledged but remains in the borrower's possession. The indiction dating places the text in the 4th century AD, when sums in talents reflect heavy inflation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geldanleihe mit Hypallagma). 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 · Hermopolis

[r] Αὐρηλία Χαρίτη Ἀμαζονίου γενομένου βουλευτοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ Δίῳ Ἑλλαδίου γενομένου βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι καὶ μεμετρῆσθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐξ οἴκου χρῆσιν ἔντοκον κεφαλαίου συνανειλημμένου τόκου ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν νομίσματος τάλαντα ἑξακόσια τεσσεράκοντα, …