Opening of a document, probably a contract, addressed with greetings by several men including Kallinikos son of Serenos and Nearchides son of Nearchides, from a village in the Hermopolite nome. It is dated by the year after the third consulship of Valentinian and Valens, on Tybi 15, i.e. January 371.
In English machine translation
After the 3rd consulship of our lords Valentinian and Valens, the eternal Augusti, Tybi 15.
[…] and Kallinikos son of Serenos […] son of Germanos son of […]ros and Nearchides son of Nearchides, from the village of […] of the Hermopolite nome […], greetings.
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[…] of the city
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[… ? lines lost …]
The postconsular date after the third consulship of Valentinian and Valens (370) places the document in 371. Only the dating formula and the parties' names survive, so the type of agreement 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 Anfang einer Urkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.