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Loan from a priest to his mother with a slave girl as security TM 9577Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)16. Nov. 150

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A loan contract from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, dated 16 November AD 150, in which the sixty-year-old Segathis, acting with a guardian, acknowledges borrowing 840 silver drachmas at 12% annual interest from her son Stotoetis, a village priest, through a bank. She is to repay by Pharmouthi and pledges to keep her slave girl Taorsenouphis unalienated as security until then.

In English machine translation

Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month of Neos Sebastos 20, in Soknopaiou Nesos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Segathis daughter of Satabous son of Tesieus, aged about 60, scar […] […]akos, with as guardian her sister's husband Stotoetis […] son of Stotoetis, priest of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, aged about […]9, scar on the right eyebrow, acknowledges to her son Stotoetis son of Stotoetis […] son of Stotoetis, priest of the same village, aged about 42, scar on the right wrist, that she has received from him forthwith […] through the bank of Dioxenos alias Sarapion an interest-bearing loan of silver, capital 840 drachmas, at interest of 1 drachma per mina each month; and that Segathis will repay to Stotoetis the aforesaid 840 drachmas of silver with the interest in the month of Pharmouthi of the present 14th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord without delay; and until she repays to Stotoetis the aforesaid capital and the interest, […] Stotoetis according to this agreement […] Segathis will keep unalienated and unencumbered her slave girl Taorsenouphis […], Stotoetis having the right of execution upon […] and upon all her property, as if by a court judgment […] [… 3 lines lost …]

The security is a hypallagma: the debtor keeps the pledged slave but may not sell or encumber her until the loan is repaid. Interest of 1 drachma per mina per month equals 12% a year, the standard rate.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Darlehensvertrag mit Hypallagma). 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 · 16. Nov. 150 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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