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The closing clauses of a Byzantine agreement between two or more parties, declaring the document valid wherever produced and pledging all their property, present and future, as security for its terms and any penalty. It comes from Antinoopolis in the 6th century AD.
"Self-moving" property means livestock and slaves, a standard category in late antique pledge clauses. One record narrows the date to 566-573, while the others give only the 6th century.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
ὁμολογίαν διὰ παντὸς, ἥνπερ ἡμῖν ἐθέμεθα πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν, κυρίαν οὖσαν καὶ βεβαίαν πανταχοῦ προφερομένην, ὑποθέμενοι ἀλλήλοις εἰς ἅπαντα τὰ προγεγραμμένα καὶ εἰς τὴν ἀπαίτησιν τοῦ προστίμου εἰ οὕτω τύχοι πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἡμῖν καὶ ὑπάρξοντα πράγματα κινητά τε καὶ ἀκίνητα καὶ αὐτο…
καὶ ἐνορκῶ πᾶσαν ἐξουσίαν καὶ κριτὴν καὶ δικαστὴν ἀμεταθέτως ταύτας ἀεὶ παραφυλάξαι ἀρραγεῖς ἀπαραβάτους καὶ ἀσαλεύτους ἐν παντὶ χρόνῳ καιρῷ κατὰ προ…μον † συγκεκροτημένας βεβαίῳ παντὶ καὶ νομίμῳ τρόπῳ καὶ ἀποφατικῷ ὡς ἐκ διαλαλίας ἀρχόντων μεγαλοπρεπεστάτων καὶ εἶτα δὲ συνϊστανο…
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