One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15325

Beginning of a document addressed to the most holy Apollos TM 15325Oxyrhynchos (?)15. Jan. 580

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The opening of a Byzantine legal or business document, dated by the regnal and consular years of Emperor Tiberius II Constantine to Tybi 19 of the 13th indiction (15 January 580). It is addressed to a man called Apollos, styled 'most holy', which suggests a cleric, son of a deceased father; the rest of the text is lost.

In English machine translation

† In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Tiberius Constantinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 5, and in the consulship of their Serenity year 1, […] Tybi 19, indiction 13. […] to the most holy Apollos son of the blessed […] […] [… lines lost …]

Only the dating formula and the start of the address survive, so the type of document cannot be determined. The title 'most holy' (hosiotatos) was normally given to clergy, such as a priest or bishop.

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

p.haun.3.59

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 15. Jan. 580 · Oxyrhynchos (?)

† βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Τιβερίου Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ε ὑπατείας τῆς αὐτῶν γαληνότητος ἔτους α […] Τῦβι ιθ ἰνδικτίονος ιγ. […]τῷ ὁσιοτάτῳ Ἀπολλῶτι υἱῷ τοῦ μακαρίου […]…[…]…[…] [… ? l…