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Loan of 80 drachmas with right of habitation in a house TM 21951Oxyrhynchos11. Mai 68

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A contract from Oxyrhynchus dated 11 May AD 68 in which Sarapion son of Sarapion borrows 80 silver drachmas and, instead of interest, grants the lender the right to live in a room of his house with its courtyard and other facilities until the loan is repaid. It sets penalties for breach and requires the lender to vacate within 60 days of repayment.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] […] from the present day, you and your people and those who will be settled in by you using the room and gateway and roof and courtyard and entrance and exit and all the other appurtenances of the house without hindrance, neither I nor anyone else having the right to eject you or your people from the habitation until the term is completed, on which terms I shall also guarantee the habitation to you and your people with every guarantee. And when the term is completed I shall repay you the 80 drachmas of silver; but if I violate the agreement or do not act as written, I shall pay you, for failing to guarantee the habitation as stated above, 40 drachmas of silver and an equal amount to the public treasury, and the money at once with the addition of one half, together with the appropriate interest from the time of my violation, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property, as if by legal judgment. And when you have recovered the money after the term, you shall vacate the habitation within another 60 days, handing over whatever door and key you receive. This contract is valid wherever produced and for anyone who produces it. Year 14 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Germanikeios 16. Sarapion son of Sarapion son of Sarapion, his mother being Sampatymis […] daughter of (?) […]onides: I have received from Te[…] the 80 drachmas of silver of capital and I shall repay […] […]

This is an antichretic arrangement: the lender's use of the dwelling (enoikismos) stands in place of interest on the loan. Germanikeios is the name given to the month Pachon under Nero.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Loan with Right of Habitation). 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.14.1641

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Mai 68 · Oxyrhynchos

[… 2 lines lost …] […]…α…[…] ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας χρωμένου σοῦ καὶ τῶν παρὰ σοῦ τῶν ὑπὸ σοῦ εἰσοικισθησομένων τῷ τε οἴκῳ καὶ πυλῶνι καὶ δώματι καὶ αὐλῇ καὶ εἰσόδῳ καὶ ἐξόδῳ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τῆς οἰκίας χρηστηρίοις πᾶσι ἀκωλύτως, οὐκ οὔσης μοι οὔτʼ ἄλλῳ οὐδενὶ ἐξουσίας ἐκβάλλειν…