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Agreement ceding mortgaged property to Demetrios TM 21328unbekannt128 - 129

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Fragment of an agreement in which a certain Dionysios cedes property to Demetrios, apparently land that had been mortgaged, with guarantees that it is free of public taxes and other claims. It mentions a person who died childless and intestate, a debt of 400 silver drachmas, and rents of the 13th year of Hadrian.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] […] of those from the same metropolis […] […] in accordance with this agreement to cede to Demetrios from now for all time […] […] in the year, childless and intestate, mortgaged (?) […] […] of the second year of Hadrian Caesar the lord […] […] together with the rents of the present thirteenth year […] […] of the interest accumulated from the deposit until now […] […] being, from which Dionysios, the party making the agreement, owes […] […] 400 drachmas of silver, and that he will guarantee him […] […] with every guarantee, which he will also provide free from all public taxes […] […] from the former times up to the past twelfth year […] […] from every claim for all time; and the public dues from the present thirteenth year […] […] and those from him, as stated above, the rents of the same thirteenth year […] […] possession and valid and […] […] and for the future […] […] […]

Much of the text is restored from standard formulas of cession contracts; the 13th year of Hadrian corresponds to AD 128/129.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Renunciation of Claims to Property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 128 - 129

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