Agreement on oath and Draft of agreement
The recto shows the fragmentary beginning of an agreement. The verso contains part of a draft of another ὁμολογία, with ὁ δεῖνα instead of a name.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18488
Draft of an agreement with blank name TM 18488OxyrhynchusFifth or sixth century CE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragmentary draft of an agreement (homologia) on the back of a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus, using the placeholder 'so-and-so' instead of a real name. It mentions a 'most admirable son' of someone 'of blessed memory' and a 'most noble' woman, and refers to the terms set out below.
In English machine translation
[…] so-and-so [acknowledges willingly] and of his own free choice
[…] the most admirable son of the […]
[…] […]
[of blessed memory] […] of the most noble […]
[…]
[…] on all the [terms] set out below
[…] […] accepting […]
[…] each other […]
[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The scribe wrote 'so-and-so' (ho deina) in place of a party's name, showing this is a draft or model. One description dates the papyrus more broadly to the 5th or 6th century AD.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Agreement on Oath and Draft of Agreement). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.leid.inst.1.70v
ὁμολογεῖ ὁ δεῖνα ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως […] ὁ θαυμασιώτατος υἱὸς τοῦ τῆς […]…α…ισας αὐτοι[…]…σαιος μακαρίου μνήμης[…]……α τῆς εὐγενεστάτης […]σε…ησις […]σι… ἐπὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ἑξῆς δηλουμένοις ὁμολογήμασι[…]…σαν ὑποδεχομένης […] ἑκάστου ἑτέρου […]…[…]… [… ? lines lost …]