A record of the repayment of a loan of 472 drachmas, executed at Oxyrhynchus around 28 August 101 AD. Artemidoros acknowledges repayment of capital and interest from a couple, Dionysios and his wife, releases the mortgage on their house property at Psobthis, and returns the loan contract for cancellation.
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[…] his mother being Tauseiris daughter of […], from Psobthis of the eastern toparchy, with her guardian, her husband Dionysios, (acknowledge) in the street that he has received from them 472 drachmas of silver of the imperial coinage, the capital which he lent them under a contract of loan executed through the record office in the same city of Oxyrhynchus in the third year of Trajan Caesar the lord, in the month Kaisareios, for repayment on the fifth intercalary day of the following fourth year, on the security of the property belonging to Dionysios in the aforesaid Psobthis: a half share of vacant plots, shares of a collapsed house, a half share of another house and its appurtenances, and shares of another house and courtyard and vacant plots, formerly belonging to Claudius Theon, in the same Psobthis, with a house and open court and other appurtenances. Wherefore Artemidoros, granting release of the mortgage, has thereupon returned to those making the acknowledgment the loan contract in his possession and the tax receipts for cancellation, and (acknowledges) that he has further received from them the interest on the same capital and the taxes that were exacted, and that neither Artemidoros himself nor anyone else on his behalf makes or will make any claim or will proceed against those making the acknowledgment nor against those acting for them […]
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"In the street" (en agyiai) is a formula for a contract drawn up publicly rather than through a notary office. The beginning and end of the document are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Repayment of a Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.