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Opening of a contract addressed to the patrician Flavius Apion, a great landowner at Oxyrhynchus, acting through his servant Menas, dated by the regnal year of the emperor Phocas. The docket on the back identifies it as a deed of advance (prochreia), probably a loan or advance payment.
A prochreia is an advance, often money paid ahead for later delivery of goods; the body of the contract with its terms is lost. The servant Menas acts as the stipulating party on Apion's behalf, a standard arrangement in Apion estate documents.
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 κ, ἰνδικτίωνος ι. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ …
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