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Sale of mortgaged house property in settlement of loans TM 31793OxyrhynchosIII

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Fragmentary deed of sale from Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD, in which a person sells shares of several houses in the city to a creditor for 18,000 silver drachmas. The price is set off against two earlier loans secured by mortgage on the same houses, with their accumulated interest.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] […] … […] after the … […] […] [half share of a house] and courtyard formerly of Moros also called Psois, the remaining half [share] […], and in the same city, of two houses joined to one another, the northern [house] […] [and] […] [share of the] other house, after the remaining places, all of them, assigned by the above will by the [father] […] to my brother, and now of the same house […] to build on whenever you choose upon the existing first storey of the same [house] […] the first storey so as to [live in it] without danger and securely, [of which the neighbours on the south are] […], on the east a street, on the north and west the heirs of Theon also called Zoilos, [and in the same city, after the] […] two-thirds share of a house and its appurtenances and belongings […] [the remaining third] share, of which as a whole the neighbours are on the south the house of Kopreus and partners, [on the north] […], [on the east] […], [on the west] […], at the price agreed between us for the aforesaid [houses and] […] of 18,000 drachmas of imperial silver coin, […] [which make 3 talents] […] [against the sums] paid to you by me under two security deeds made on mortgage of the [aforesaid houses (?), one in the] […] [year of this] most prosperous reign, on Pauni 28, for a principal of 4,000 drachmas of silver, [the other in the] […] [year] […] for a principal of 5,100 drachmas, together for the two [securities a principal of] […] [drachmas], and the accumulated interest at one drachma per mina monthly up to the past […] [year] […] [?]00 and 64 [drachmas], the total of principal and interest [drachmas] […] … wife [… ? lines lost …]

"Drachmiaioi tokoi" means interest of one drachma per mina per month, i.e. 12 percent a year. The beginning and end of the deed, including the parties' names, are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Mortgaged House - property). 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.14.1701

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III · Oxyrhynchos

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