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Application to the property record office for release of a mortgage TM 9407Arsinoites180 - 192

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Application to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome by the minor Aphrodisia, acting through her father and guardian Sarapion, to release a mortgage on houses in the metropolis and land at Alabanthis securing a debt of 1 talent owed by Alexandra. The debt is being repaid by Alexandra's son and heir, and the purchaser Philoumene takes on the property while a new mortgage is registered on other houses and land at Tebetny. It dates from the reign of Commodus.

In English machine translation

[…] To Sarapion also called […], former exegetai, keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, from Aphrodisia, a minor, registered in the quarter of the Tameia […], with her guardian and tutor according to the laws, her father Sarapion son of Aphrodisios son of Posidonios. The mortgage and mesiteia which I hold, registered through you, in the metropolis in the quarter of Horion son of Hierakios, on a new house in which […], from the western part of it a small house, and in the same quarter on a house and courtyard and from the northern part of it another small house, and a mesiteia near the village of Alabanthis on a catoecic allotment of 3 arouras, for a capital of 1 talent of silver, owed by the debtor Alexandra daughter of Ischyrion son of Ischyrion, freedwoman of An[…], registered through the former record keepers, I wish to release to Philoumene daughter of Apollonios son of Ptollarion, from the quarter of Phanesion, purchaser, among other things, of the aforementioned pledges, on condition that the capital and interest under the mortgage are paid through the debtor's heir by succession, her own son Ammonios also called Serenos, I receiving from her the aforementioned capital of 1 talent, she consenting on the present day to another mortgage and mesiteia in the quarter of the Bithynians of Other Places on a new house with atrium and courtyard, formerly a house with two towers, atrium, courtyard and vacant plot, and near the village of Tebetny on half of a catoecic allotment of 16 2/3 arouras. I, Ptolemaios also called Chre[…], secretary […], […] secretary, registered it. Year […] of Aurelius Commodus Caesar the lord, Tybi 10. Submitted through me, Apol(lonios?), 14.

Mesiteia is a form of security on property held through an intermediary, with no exact English equivalent. The regnal year is lost, so the date covers the whole sole reign of Commodus.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

bgu.3.907

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 180 - 192 · Arsinoites

… Σαραπίωνι τῷ καὶ …θ…ου…ετ…αι ἐξηγητεύσασι βιβλιοφύλαξιν ἐνκτήσεων Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Ἀφροδισίας ἀφήλικος ἀναγραφομένης ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ταμείων […] μετὰ κυρίου καὶ ἐπιτρόπου κατὰ τοὺς νόμους τοῦ πατρὸς Σαραπίωνος Ἀφροδισίου τοῦ Ποσιδωνίου. ἥν ἔσχον διʼ ὑμῶν ὑποθήκην καὶ μεσιτείαν ἐν τῇ…