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Beginning of a document with imperial dating formula of Maurice TM 15731Oxyrhynchites583 - 584

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The opening of a Byzantine document, preserving only the dating formula by the regnal year of Emperor Maurice and the post-consular year of his predecessor Tiberius II Constantine. The rest of the document, whose content is unknown, is lost. It dates to AD 583-584 and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

† In the reign of our most divine and [most pious] master, greatest benefactor [Flavius] Tiberius Mauricius, the eternal [Augustus] and Imperator, year 2, after [the consulship] of our master of divine memory (lit. 'who has gone to his divine lot') Tiberius Constantinus, [year …] […]

Only the protocol survives, so the type of document cannot be determined. Tiberius II is referred to as deceased, consistent with Maurice's early reign.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Inizio di documento con titolatura imperiale). 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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p.genova.1.31

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 583 - 584 · Oxyrhynchites

† βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Τιβερίου Μαυρικίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους β μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τοῦ τῆς θείας λήξεως γενομένου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Τιβερίου Κωνσταντίνου ἔτους[…] [… ? lines lost …]