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Loan of 6 gold solidi secured by mortgage on a house at Onne TM 37475HerakleopolitesVII

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Fragment of a loan contract from the Herakleopolite nome, 7th century AD, in which a man (apparently Daniel) acknowledges receiving 6 gold solidi from Menas of the same village. As security he mortgages a small newly built house inherited from his father in the village of Onne, whose boundaries begin to be described.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] Daniel, signing below in his own hand, from the [...] [...] Menas, from the same village, greetings. I acknowledge that I have [...] clearly and definitively 6 solidi of refined gold [...] total 6 solidi of gold, principal. For security and freedom from concern I have mortgaged to you [by way of pledge] and by right of mortgage, from my property, what came to me [by inherit]ance from my late father, namely my small newly built house, the [...] [...] of our village Onne, situated in the protokomion of the same [village] [...] of the same house to the east, together with the courtyard that is in fr[ont] [...] [...] to the south [...] [...]

The protokomion was the central or principal quarter of a village. The solidi are described as obryziac, meaning of refined, full-standard gold.

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 with Mortgage). 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 · VII · Herakleopolites

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