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Application to the property archive for leave to mortgage catoecic land TM 20619Oxyrhynchos108 CE

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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.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] mother To[…] […] through his own […] […] priest of Zeus and Hera and […] […] the [arouras] belonging to me near the village […] […] of the Eastern toparchy, from the [holding] of Zenodoros […] […] catoecic allotment […] [… 5 lines lost …] thirty, to be made by the fifth of the intercalary days of the month Kaisareios of the twenty-second year of Trajan Caesar the lord, [with interest] of one drachma per mina each month from the following month Pharmouthi, which I will also pay at the close of each twelve-month period, I submit this memorandum so that you may instruct the agoranomoi and recorders of the metropolis to execute the deed as is proper, and I swear by the deified Augusti and the fortune of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus and by the ancestral gods that the aforementioned arouras are my own and free from every encumbrance, public and private, up to the present day. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Phamenoth, Augustus' day. I, Achillas son of Didymos, have submitted this and sworn the oath. Sarapion, keeper of the archives together with Theon, to the agoranomoi of the metropolis, greetings. Achillas holds the 6 arouras in his registration; therefore carry out the deed as is proper. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Phamenoth 29.

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.

p.oxy.3.483

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. März 108 · Oxyrhynchos

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