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Loan of 50 talents of silver secured by mortgage of a sun-court TM 17698Hermopolis20. Mai 316

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End of a loan contract in which Aurelius Adelphios acknowledges receiving 50 talents of silver and pledges as security a sun-court belonging to his late father's house in the West City quarter of Hermopolis. It was drawn up on 20 May 316.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] ... of the house of my aforementioned father, a sun-court in the same city in the quarter of West City, in whatever condition it is, with its fixtures and all appurtenances; neighbours: to the south [...]chos; to the north your ... [...]; to the east the sun-court of Ophis; to the west the sun-court of [...], which from now on I shall keep unalienated and unencumbered and not pledged for another loan and unsold, and I shall repay you at the aforementioned term, or be subject to execution, you having the right of execution both upon me and upon the sun-court itself mortgaged to you and upon all my property, as if by a court judgment; and moreover I shall guarantee it to you with every guarantee against both public and private or civic claims and simply against anyone who shall come forward or lay claim. The mortgage is valid, and having been asked the formal question I agreed. In the consulship of Caecina Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, Pachon 25. I, Aurelius Adelphios, have received and shall repay the 50 talents of silver and have mortgaged as stated above.

A 'sun-court' (heliasterion) is an open, sunlit courtyard attached to a house. The security is a hypallagma, a pledge in which the property stays with the debtor but cannot be alienated until the loan is repaid.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Hypallagmatisch gesichertes Darlehen). 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 · 20. Mai 316 · Hermopolis

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