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Further loan of wheat secured on a farm leased to the lender TM 21420Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)19. Juli 527

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A loan acknowledgment in which Flavius Samuel, a soldier from Tanyaithis, confirms receiving a further 18 artabas of wheat from Aurelius Phoibammon of Aphrodite. The loan is secured on Samuel's farm Pmounlakon, which Phoibammon farms, and Samuel may not evict him until all debts are repaid. It was written at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome in July 527.

In English machine translation

☧ After the consulship of Flavius Olybrius, the most glorious, Epeiph 25, sixth indiction. Flavius Samuelis son of Kollouthos, his mother being Kyra, soldier of the numerus of the Ptolemais nome, from the village of Tanyaithis in the nome of Apollonos Polis Mikra, to Aurelius Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, greetings. While all the earlier written acknowledgments remain valid […] for the needs incurred by me and my daughters, in accordance with the good faith of each acknowledgment, being brought forward everywhere by way of security […] on my farm held by you, I now further acknowledge that I have received and had measured out from you, for my pressing need again, as principal, 18 artabas of wheat in clean grain, total 18 artabas of wheat; and I hold these again on the same farm of mine held by you, called Pmounlakon, by way of advance, together with the other gold and produce given to me by you, which are contained in the earlier documents […]; and whenever you leave the same place I shall repay these as I received them, by your measure; and I shall not be able to expel you from the same place before the repayment of these together with the other debts, without any dispute or delay. I have drawn this up for you as security, with my own subscription; and having been asked the formal question […] I, Flavius Samuel son of Kollouthos, the aforesaid soldier, owe and am indebted for the 18 artabas of wheat, and everything is agreed by me as stated above. […] son of Psyros, priest (?) […] […] Flavius […] son of Joseph […] I witness the debt. […]

The arrangement is a form of antichresis: the creditor works the debtor's land as security, and repayment is due only when he leaves it. A numerus (arithmos) was a military unit of the late Roman army.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Further loan of grain from Phoibammon, Triadelphos’ son, on security of farm let to him). 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 · 19. Juli 527 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

☧ μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίου Ὀλυβρίου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου, Ἐπεὶφ κε, ἕκτης ἰνδικτίονος, Φλαούιος Σαμουήλις Κολλούθου μητρὸς Κύρας, στρατιώτης ἀριθμοῦ τοῦ Πτολεμαίδου νομοῦ ἀπὸ κώμης Τανυαίθεως νομοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος Πόλεως Μικρᾶς, Αὐρηλίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι Τριαδέλφου ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιο…