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An instruction from Caecilius Clemens to the agoranomos (market and records official) of Oxyrhynchus to register a loan contract secured by mortgage. The lender is Thonis, chief pastophoros of the temple of Thoeris, Isis, Sarapis and Osiris, and the borrower his full brother Thomphuas, who pledged a third share of a house in the Gymnasium Street quarter for a loan of 400 drachmas.
A pastophoros was a temple official, literally a shrine-bearer. The end of the text, including a banker's certificate of payment of the sales and mortgage tax, is lost or not included here.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registration of a Mortgage). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Registration of a mortgage addressed to an agoranomos by Caecilius Clemens, an official whose status is not specified; the mortgage is made out to Thonis, chief bearer in the temple of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and Osiris, on the security of the third part of a house situated …
Καικίλλιος Κλήμης τῷ ἀγορανόμῳ χαίρειν. ἀνάγραψον δανείου συνγραφὴν Θώνιος τοῦ Ἁρπαήσιος τοῦ Πετσερωθώνιος μητρὸς Πετοσίριος τῆς Ἁρπαήσιος τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως, ἀρχιπαστοφόρου Θοήριδος καὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Σαράπιδος καὶ Ὠσίριος καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν μεγίστων, ὑποθήκης τρίτου μέρους …
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