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Beginning of a contract between officials of the governor of Arcadia and a nomikarios TM 19273Oxyrhynchos8. März 494

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Opening of a contract drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 8 March 494. Two Herakleopolitan officials, Flavius Serenos and Flavius Ptolemaios, senior officers (primicerii) of the quaestionarii in the staff of the governor of Arcadia, address Aurelius Theodoros, a legal scribe (nomikarios) of Oxyrhynchus. The body of the agreement is lost.

In English machine translation

χμγ † After the consulship of Flavius Eusebius, vir clarissimus, for the 2nd time, Phamenoth 12, 2nd indiction, in the city of Oxyrhynchus. Flavii Serenos son of Anoubion and Ptolemaios son of Phoibammon, from the city of the Herakleopolitans, primicerii of the quaestionarii of the office of the governor of the province of Arcadia, residing here in the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius Theodoros son of Megalos, of pious memory, also called Didymos, nomikarios, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites […] […]

χμγ at the top is a Christian cryptogram often read as 'Christ born of Mary' or similar. The quaestionarii were officials in the governor's office, probably concerned with interrogation and investigation; a nomikarios was a notary or legal scribe.

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 Between Officials). 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.59.3986

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. März 494 · Oxyrhynchos

χμγ † μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουΐου Εὐσεβίου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου τὸ β, Φαμενὼθ ιβ β ἰνδικτίωνος ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει. Φλαούϊοι Σερῆνος υἱὸς Ἀνουβίωνος καὶ Πτολεμαῖος υἱὸς Φοιβάμμωνος ἀπὸ τῆς Ἡρακλεοπολιτῶν πριμικήριοι τῶν κουαιστιωναρίων τάξεως ἡγεμονίας ἐπαρχίας Ἀρκαδίας ἐνδημοῦντες ἐντα…