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Beginning of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion, represented by his servant Menas, dated in the reign of the emperor Phocas. The docket on the back identifies it as a deed for an advance (a loan or advance payment) made to a man named Ieremias. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in November 606.
A prochreia is an advance, often of money against later delivery of produce; the terms of this one are lost. Menas acts as the slave agent who takes the stipulation on behalf of his master Apion.
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] βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Φωκᾶ τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ε, Ἁθὺρ κ, ἰνδικτίωνος δεκάτης. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων καὶ πατρικίῳ γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτ…
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