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Opening of a contract addressed to Flavius Apion, head of the great Apion estate, dated by the regnal year of Emperor Phocas. The docket on the back suggests it was a deed for an advance payment. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in AD 606.
Only the invocation, dating clause and addressee survive; the nature of the contract rests on the partly read docket, where 'prochreia' means an advance or loan, often against later delivery of goods.
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 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 ε, Ἁθὺρ ιθ, ἰνδικτίωνος ι. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ…
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