Application for Leave to Mortgage
Application for a lease to mortgage.
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Achillas son of Didymos applies to the keepers of the property archive at Oxyrhynchus for permission to mortgage catoecic land near a village of the Eastern toparchy, swearing the land is his own and unencumbered. The archive keeper Sarapion confirms that Achillas is registered as owner of 6 arouras and instructs the agoranomoi to draw up the deed, in AD 108.
The loan is to be repaid by the fifth intercalary day of Trajan's year 22, with interest of 1 drachma per mina per month (12% a year). The bibliophylakes kept the register of property (enktesis) that had to approve any transaction.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Leave to 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.
Application for a lease to mortgage.
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