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Opening of a contract addressed to the patrician landowner Flavius Apion at Oxyrhynchus, acting through his servant Menas, dated in the reign of Emperor Heraclius. Only the invocation, dating clause and address survive; the substance of the agreement is lost.
The regnal year of Heraclius is restored by the editor; the date rests on the surviving Phaophi 3 and indiction 15. The terms of the contract are entirely lost, but such documents addressed to the Apion estate are typically employment or lease undertakings.
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.
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν. βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἡρακλείου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους δευτέρου ?, Φαῶφι γ, ἰνδικτίωνος ιε. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ…
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