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Opening of a contract with invocation and dating clause TM 17921Oxyrhynchites6. Apr. - 14. Apr. 604

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Only the opening of a document survives: an invocation of the Holy Trinity and a dating clause by the regnal year of the emperor Phocas. Such openings are typical of Byzantine contracts. It dates to April 604 and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

† In the name of the immaculate [and consubstantial] Trinity, Father and Son a[nd Holy Spirit.] In the reign of our most divine a[nd most pious] master, greatest ben[efactor, Flavius] Phocas, the eternal August[us and Imperator,] year 2, Pharmouthi 1[…], [indiction 7.] […] […]

Only the invocation and imperial dating formula survive. The identification as a contract rests on the form of this standard opening.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.58.3940

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 6. Apr. - 14. Apr. 604 · Oxyrhynchites

† ἐν ὀνόματι τῆς ἀχράντου καὶ ὁμοουσίου τριάδος πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος. βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Φωκᾶ τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους β, Φαρμοῦθι α…, ἰνδικτίωνος ζ. […]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]