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The opening of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion at Oxyrhynchus, acting through his servant Menas. Only the invocation, the dating formula and the address survive, so the nature of the agreement is lost. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 25 July 601.
The date is given by the regnal and consular year of Emperor Maurice and the indiction. Menas 'makes the formal question' (eperotan), the stipulation that made such contracts legally binding on behalf of the Apion estate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν. ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου ἔτους ιη, Μεσορὴ α, ἰνδικτίωνος τετάρτης. Φλαυίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει διὰ Μηνᾶ…
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