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End of a receipt referring to a mortgage deed deposited in a temple TM 22123Oxyrhynchos20. Nov. 307

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The end of a receipt from Oxyrhynchus, referring to a mortgage on someone's property under a written agreement that was deposited in a temple. It closes with the standard validity clause and is dated 20 November 307.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… lines lost …] […] mortgage of his property, in accordance with the written instrument he executed, which is also deposited with them in the temple. The receipt is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of our lord Maximinus, the most illustrious Caesar, Hathyr 23. [verso] [… lines lost …]

The consulship of Maximinus as Caesar dates the text to AD 307; Hathyr 23 corresponds to 20 November. The beginning of the receipt, naming the parties and the sum, is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of Receipt). 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.63.4355

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Nov. 307 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] [… ? lines lost …] …κ…κ…[…] ὑποθήκης ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῦ ἀκολούθως ᾧ ἔθετο ἐγγράφῳ τῷ καὶ παρατιθεμένῳ παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ. κυρία ἡ ἀποχὴ καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. ὑπατείας τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Μαξιμίνου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος, Ἁθὺρ κγ. [v] [… ? lines lost …]