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Opening of a document addressed to the heirs of a deceased person TM 17150Hermopolis596 - 597

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The opening of a Byzantine legal document from Hermopolis, dated by the fifteenth regnal year of the emperor Maurice (AD 596/597). It is addressed to the heirs of a deceased person by an Aurelius of the Hermopolite nome, but the substance of the agreement is lost.

In English machine translation

† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, God and our Saviour, in the reign of our most pious master Flavius Mauricius New Tiberius, the eternal Augustus, in the fifteenth year, at Hermopolis the most splendid. † To the heirs of the late […] of blessed memory […] of the Hermopolite (nome), Aurelius (?) […] […]

Only the invocation, the imperial dating formula and the address survive. The form suggests a contract, but its type cannot be determined.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Datation de Fl. Mauricius). 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 · 596 - 597 · Hermopolis

† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, βασιλείας τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαουίου Μαυρικίου Νέου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου ἔτους πεντεκαιδεκάτου, ἐν Ἑρμοῦ πόλει τῇ λαμπροτάτῃ. † κληρονόμοις τοῦ τῆς μακαρίης μνήμης[…] Ἑρμουπολίτου…