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Opening of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion, represented by his servant Menas, concerning an advance payment (prochreia) to a man named Victor. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 18 November 606, in the reign of Phocas.
A prochreia was an advance of money, typically against future delivery of produce or repayment in kind; only the protocol, address and the docket on the back survive.
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.
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