Opening of a sworn declaration addressed to Apollonios, strategos, and to Tryphon by three overseers (epimeletai) from the village of Ibion Panektyreos. They swear by the fortune of the emperor Trajan, but the substance of their report is lost.
In English machine translation
To Apollonios, strategos, and Tryphon,
from Phibis, son of an unknown father, and […]os son of Petenouris, and Kastor son of […]oto, overseers from Ibion Panektyreos:
We swear by the fortune of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus […]
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Trajan's title Parthicus dates the oath to AD 116-117; the HGV date was not supplied, so this is inferred from the titulature. Apollonios is probably the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias in those years.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report under Oath to Apollonios the Strategos: P.CtYBR inv. 4079). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.