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Subscription to an agreement TM 20314Kellis (Oasis Magna)324

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Two small fragments from the end of a contract (an "agreement") from Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis, preserving the formal closing clause and the subscription of a party, written on his behalf by Aurelius ... son of Apollonios. A docket on the back labels it an agreement.

In English machine translation

[Fragment I, recto] [...] [...]...ros [...] and having been asked the formal question [I agreed. In the fourth] consulship to come (?) [...] [Fragment II, recto] [...] [Aurelius] [...] the aforementioned, I have made [this agreement] on all the terms it contains [as stated above,] and having been asked the formal question [I agreed.] I, [Aurelius] [...]...on son of Apollonios, [...] of Kellis, wrote on his behalf. [Fragment II, verso] Agreement [...]

The dating phrase "to the consuls to be designated" (here restored as a fourth such year) was used when the new consuls' names were not yet known locally. The subject of the agreement is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Subscription to a Document). 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.kellis.1.56

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 324 · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

[r,FrI] [… ? lines lost …] […]…ρος […]μεν καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. τέταρτον μέλλουσιν ὑπάτοις [… ? lines lost …] [r,FrII] [… ? lines lost …] Αὐρήλιος[…]ὁ προκείμενος τέθειμαι ταύτην τὴν ὁμολογίαν ἐφʼ αἷς περιέχει διαστολαῖς πάσαις ὡς πρόκειται καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. ἔγραψα …