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Opening of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion, acting through his servant Menas, by Aurelius Petros son of Joseph from the estate hamlet of Nekontheos in the Oxyrhynchite nome. The body of the agreement is lost; only the invocation, date and parties survive, with a docket on the back.
The nature of the agreement is lost; such documents from the Apion estate are often loans, leases or work contracts by estate dependents. The verso word cheirographia means a handwritten acknowledgement or bond.
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. Ἐπεὶφ α, ἰνδικτίωνος ιγ. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων καὶ πατρικίῳ γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει διὰ Μηνᾶ οἰκέτου τοῦ ἐπερωτῶντος καὶ προσπορίζ…
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