One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20823

End of a document with witness subscription and notary's signature TM 20823Hermopolitesca. 525

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End of a Byzantine legal document from the Hermopolite nome, around AD 525, preserving part of a witness's subscription and the notary's completion note by Eulogios. The nature of the agreement itself is lost.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] I bear witness to the document, having heard it from the party who made it. † Written by me, Eulogios. Lord, help […]

Only the closing formulas survive, so the type of document cannot be determined; the classification as a contract rests on the standard witness and notary formulas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer Urkunde unbestimmbaren Inhalts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.9.21

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 525 · Hermopolites

[… ? lines lost …] ερ…[…]…[…]μαρτυρῶ τῷ γραμματείῳ ἀκούσας παρὰ τοῦ θεμένου. † διʼ ἐμοῦ Εὐλογίου ἐγράφη κύριε βοήθει […]