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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36071
Loan contract with antichresis in gold solidi TM 36071unbekanntspätes VI - frühes VII
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Fragment of a Byzantine loan contract secured by antichresis (the lender enjoying the use of property in place of interest), involving gold solidi reckoned at 23 carats on the Alexandrian standard. Names Phoibammon and Ioannes appear, and the document closes with a notary's subscription. The whole surviving text was struck through by the scribe.
In English machine translation
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[…] through […] the entire allotment (?)
through the […] of the right […] twenty-three […]
by the Alexandrian standard, as aforesaid. † Phoibammon with […] wrote concerning […]
the aforewritten […] of each […]
[…] benefactor […] of the present antichresis […]
[…] from the […] payment of the […]
of Ioannes […] twenty-three carats by the Alexandrian standard […]
[…] by the present antichresis […]
[…] and by the payment of the […]
[…] city […]
[…] antichresis […]
from the […] by the payment [of the] […] of gold […]
of the solidi […] twenty-three, as each by the Alexandrian standard […]
[…] written through me, […] notary.
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Antichresis is a loan arrangement in which the creditor uses the debtor's property or its income instead of receiving interest. All surviving lines are deleted, perhaps cancelling the contract or a draft.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Loan). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.