Duplicate of a loan contract from Hermopolis, dated 20 May 316, in which Aurelius Adelphios borrows fifty talents of silver and pledges as security a sun-court belonging to his late father's house in the West City quarter. He undertakes to keep the property unencumbered, to repay on time, and to guarantee the pledge against all claims.
In English machine translation
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[… 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 appurtenances and all that belongs to it]; neighbours: [to the south …]chos;
[to the north, yours …; to the east,] the sun-court of Opheus; 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 I shall be subject to execution, [you] having the right of [execution both upon]
[me and upon the] sun-court mortgaged to you and upon all my [property]
[as if by legal judgment], and moreover I shall guarantee it to you with every guarantee against [public]
[claims] and private [or municipal] ones and against anyone [at all] who [shall come forward]
[or lay claim]. [The mortgage] is valid, and having been asked I have agreed. In the consulship
[of Caecina Sabinus and] Vettius [Rufinus, the] most illustrious, [Pachon] 25. I, Aurelius Adelphios,
[have received and shall repay] the [fifty talents of silver] and have mortgaged [as aforesaid].
The heliasterion (sun-court) is an open, sunny courtyard or terrace attached to a house. The amount of fifty talents depends largely on restoration from the parallel copy.
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.