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Opening of a contract addressed to the patrician Flavius Apion, landowner at Oxyrhynchus, through his servant Menas, by a certain Aurelius Victor described as a proastites. The text breaks off after the preamble, so the nature of the transaction is lost; the back is docketed as Victor's document. It dates to the reign of Phocas, AD 604/605.
A proastites was an inhabitant of a suburban settlement (proasteion) on an estate; the docket word apodeixis can mean receipt or security document. Only the dating formula and parties survive; the operative clauses are lost.
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.
[r] ἐν ὀνόματι τῆς ἁγίας 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 γ, Τῦβι, ἰνδικτίωνος η …. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ …
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