The end of a contract dated by the regnal year of the emperors Valerian and Gallienus and the Caesar Valerian, in the month Phaophi, followed by physical descriptions of two parties, Kastor and Abestis. The verso carries a writing exercise repeating part of the imperial dating formula. Probably from Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome, AD 256.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[...]
[...] of Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus, Pious Fortunate, and Publius Licinius Cornelius Valerianus the most sacred Caesar, Augusti, Phaophi. Augusti [...]
Aug(usti) Aug(usti) [...]
Kastor, aged about 35, scar on the right knee
Abestis, aged about 33, scar on the right calf
[verso]
of our {lords} lords [...] and Valerianus Gallienus Augusti, second year
The repeated and partly deleted words on the recto and the dating formula on the verso appear to be scribal practice rather than part of the contract. The provenance is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Parte finale di contratto ed esercizio di scrittura). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.