bgu.2.673
† ὑπατείας Φλαυίου Φιλοξένου[…] Θὼθ κα τῆς δ ἰνδικτίωνος[…] Φλάυιος ἄπα Ἰωάννης Ἀνδρέου […] Ἱέρακος Ἰσακίου καὶ Ἰωνν[…] στρατιώτης ἀριθμοῦ Ἑρμώνθεως Αὐρηλίῳ[…] ἐκ μητρὸς Κουτλωτσει ἐκ[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20182
Beginning of a contract involving soldiers of the Hermonthis unit TM 20182Hermonthis18. Sept. 525
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Opening of a legal document, probably a contract, drawn up at Hermonthis on 18 September 525. Several men are named, among them Flavius Apa Ioannes son of Andreas and a soldier of the Hermonthis garrison unit. They address an Aurelius whose mother was Koutlotsei. Only the heading and the names of the parties survive.
In English machine translation
† In the consulship of Flavius Philoxenos […]
Thoth 21 of the [4th indiction] […]
Flavius Apa Ioannes son of Andreas […]
Hierax son of Isakios and Ionn[…]
soldier of the unit (arithmos) of Hermonthis, to Aurelius […]
whose mother is Koutlotsei, from […]
[…]
The arithmos was a regular military unit of the late Roman army, here stationed at Hermonthis. The nature of the transaction is lost with the rest of the text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.