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Beginning of a contract addressed to Flavius Apion TM 17928Oxyrhynchos28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 606

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Opening of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion, dated by the regnal year of the emperor Phocas. Only the invocation, dating formula, address and a docket naming the other party survive. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in autumn AD 606.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the name of the immaculate and consubstantial Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Phocas, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 5, Hathyr […], indiction 10. To Flavius Apion, the all-renowned and most magnificent former consul and patrician, landowner also here […] […] […] [verso] † Document of A[…], son of Apa[…]

The body of the contract is lost, so its type (likely a lease or labour contract with the Apion estate) cannot be determined. The verso docket identifies it as a written document (grammateion) of the other party.

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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p.oxy.58.3947

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 606 · Oxyrhynchos

[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[…], ἰνδικτίωνος ι. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ…