Application to register a mortgage on a house share in the Cretan Quarter TM 21621Oxyrhynchos1. Jan. 287

[recto] Filed. To the Aurelii Asklepiades, former hypomnematographos, and however he is styled, and his colleague, keepers of the archives (bibliophylakes), from Aurelius Apollonios, freedman of Antonius, and however he is styled. By a double chirograph drawn up in the past 2nd and 1st year, in the month Pachon, Aurelius Asklepiades, son of Didymos, his mother being Berenike, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, acknowledged that he had received from me as a loan, from hand to hand, 1 talent and 2,200 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti as principal, on the security of the third share belonging to him, which came down to him by right of inheritance from his aforementioned father Didymos, of a house and courtyard and all its appurtenances, except the dining room (symposion), situated in the Cretan Quarter, for a term of repayment which has arrived and passed, as the chirograph states. Since it was made public by me with the consent of the debtor in the present 3rd and 2nd year, in the month Choiak, I submit to you the official notice sent back to us from the review office, together with equal copies, and I present this memorandum and declare that my said debtor has not registered the third share of the aforementioned house properties, but that it belongs to him, as stated above, by right of inheritance from his aforementioned father Aurelius Didymos, as is proper, and I swear the oath customary among Romans that I have not lied. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Germanicus Maximus and year 2 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Pii Felices Augusti, Tybi 6. I, Aurelius Apollonios, have submitted this and sworn the oath as stated above. I, Aurelius Sarapion, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. I, Aurelius Asklepiades, bibliophylax, have noted it. [verso] Mortgage of Sarapion (?), coppersmith.