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Fragment of a loan contract secured by a mortgage, in which a woman borrower pledges property, apparently including a house. The surviving clauses set out the lenders' rights of foreclosure and of recovering any shortfall from the debtor's other property. It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD.
Much of the legal wording is restored from standard mortgage formulas. Epikatabole refers to the foreclosure procedure by which the creditor took possession of mortgaged property.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehen mit Hypothekbestellung). 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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