Declaration of mutual guarantee by estate headmen to the estate administrator TM 20875Herakleopolis1. Apr. - 31. Aug. 543

Fragment of a dated declaration from Herakleopolis, AD 543, in which Aurelius Menas and other headmen of the estate of Paseei, acting with mutual guarantee, make an undertaking to the administrator of the same estate. The surviving text mentions avoiding any misappropriation or harassment and refers to the 'glorious house', a great landowning household, and to answering for certain matters.

In English machine translation

Kephalaiotai were headmen or representatives of the workers or tenants of an estate; the 'glorious house' (endoxos oikos) denotes a great aristocratic household owning the estate.

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 datierten Erklärung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.