Arbitration agreement between Theodoros and Psois and Konon for his wife Athanasia TM 19724Antinoopolis5. Okt. 566

[recto] ☧ In the 1st year of the reign of our most divine master Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, Phaophi 8, of the 15th indiction, in Antinoopolis the most splendid. This security of arbitration agreement is made and drawn up with one another, willingly and persuaded, without any fraud, fear, force, deceit, compulsion or circumvention whatsoever, on the one part by the Aurelii Theodoros son of Psois, steward (pronoetes), and his nephew Psois son of Kosmas, notary, and on the other part by Aurelius Konon son of Epanakios, merchant, acting and transacting with full authority on behalf of Athanasia his most noble wife, the three originating from the city of the Lykopolitans but now residing in this city of the Antinoites; and they agree with one another concerning what is set out below. A dispute having arisen between the parties concerning evident matters pertaining to them, they resolved to submit to arbitration and chose by common consent Konstantinos and Ioannes, the most learned scholastici and advocates of the court of the Thebaid, men devoted to justice. Accordingly, therefore, the parties on each side agree, swearing by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and permanence of our gloriously victorious master Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, to appear before the aforementioned most learned men within 4 days counted from today, the date written above, which is Phaophi 8 of the present 15th indiction, and to submit to them the legal documents (?) in their possession, and to abide by and obey what shall be determined or decided by them […] of them […] our […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… 4 lines lost …] […] the wish […]