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Fragment of a contract from the Arsinoite nome in which Toreus son of Herakleios, about 65 years old, acknowledges something involving a sum of 1,000 silver drachmas and property of a paternal allotment near the village of Bernikis Thesmophorou. It may be a loan secured by a mortgage. Dated to the 2nd century AD.
The identification as a loan with mortgage is tentative. A klēros was a plot of land originally allotted to a settler.
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 Hypothek?). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Τορεὺς Ἡρακλήου […]ἀπὸ κώμης[…]ου τῆς αὐτῆς μερίδος ὡς ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα[…]πέντε οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ μικρῷ χειρὸς ἀριστερᾶς […] Σουήριος τῆς Ἡρακλήου καὶ η…π…… τῆς […]Εἰρήνης του…[…]ωνι ἐκ τοῦ προγεγραμμένου […]περὶ κώμην Βερνικίδα Θεσμοφόρου πατρικοῦ κλήρ…
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