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Loan on security of property from Apollonios to Olympos TM 17219Dura - Europos133 - 134

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A Greek loan contract from Dura-Europos dated by both the Parthian (Arsacid) and the older Seleucid eras. Apollonios, a court dignitary, lends silver drachmas to Olympos on the security of all his property, with clauses on repayment, execution, renewal at the registry office and penalties.

In English machine translation

In the reign of the king of kings Arsakes, benefactor, just, manifest and friend of the Greeks, in the year 381 as the king of kings reckons, but as formerly 445, on the […] twentieth of the month […], in Europos near Arabia. Apollonios son of […], Europaean, one of the first and most honoured friends and of the bodyguards, lent […] to Olympos son of […]aphanes son of Olympos, Europaean of the same […], living in […], […] drachmas of good coined silver […] on security of all his existing property, […] with the lord (?) […]. Olympos shall repay the aforesaid silver to Apollonios in the month […] in the year 446 by the former reckoning. If he does not repay within the fixed time […], Apollonios and anyone presenting this contract shall have the right of execution against Olympos and the property pledged to him and whatever other property he may acquire, exacting the whole with full authority, except for […] with the […]. Olympos undertook to renew this contract through the local registry office whenever Apollonios notifies him, within another five days, and if he does not renew it, to pay to Apollonios a penalty of […] drachmas of silver and an equal amount to the royal treasury, and this contract shall remain valid even so. It also has a counterpart. Witnesses: […] son of Seleukos, Diokles son of Danymos, Lysias son of Diokles. I, Olympos the above-named, have sealed. […] of the year four hundred and forty-five […] […] of the year four hundred and forty-five […]

The year 381 is of the Arsacid era and 445 of the Seleucid era, both corresponding to AD 133/4. Dura was then under Roman rule, but the scribe kept the Parthian dating formula."}

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 133 - 134 · Dura - Europos

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