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Acknowledgement of a loan of gold solidi from a church TM 37117Oxyrhynchos ?VI - VII

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Fragment of a loan contract in which a son of Papnouthios acknowledges borrowing gold solidi from a holy church, addressed to a cleric styled 'your God-beloved Piety', and promises repayment on demand, pledging his property. Aurelius Menas wrote the subscription for the illiterate borrower; probably from Oxyrhynchus, 6th-7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] from your God-beloved Piety [...] gold solidi [...], which, being free from all risk, I will of necessity repay to the same holy church [...] and whenever it may wish to receive them back [without delay, at the risk of my] property, which is pledged [for this. This] contract, written in a single copy, [is valid], and having been asked the formal question I have agreed. [I, so-and-so son of Pap]nouthios, the aforementioned, [acknowledge that I have received by way of] a loan [...] gold solidi [as stated above and] I will repay them whenever you may wish, and [...] [...] I, Aurelius Menas son of Theodoros, having been asked, [wrote on his behalf, since he is illiterate]. [† Through me, Philoxenos, notary,] it was completed.

The amount of the loan, the borrower's name and the notary's name are lost or restored; 'God-beloved Piety' is an honorific for a church official.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Cautio pecuniae mutuae acceptae). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII · Oxyrhynchos ?

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