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Opening of a contract addressed to the great landowner Flavius Apion, former consul and patrician, through his slave Menas, who acts on his behalf. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 21 August 610; the substance of the agreement is lost.
The date formula counts the 13th indiction while noting the start of the 14th, as Mesore fell at the turn of the indiction year. Menas acting as stipulating slave is a standard device by which the Apion estate acquired legal rights through its staff.
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. Μεσορὴ κη, ἰνδικτίωνος ιγ, ἀρχῇ ιδ. φlαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων καὶ πατρικίῳ γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει διὰ Μηνᾶ οἰκέτου τοῦ ἐπερωτῶντος κα…
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