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Deed of gift of various properties to the monastery of Saint Jeremias TM 20876Memphis

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Opening and docket of a deed of gift in which Apphous, chief reader of the hamlet of Metrodoros, donates various properties to the monastery of Saint Jeremias on the mountain of Memphis, represented by its superior and archimandrite Alexis. It was drawn up at Memphis in Justinian's 19th regnal year, indiction 9 (AD 545).

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Iustinianus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 19, when the consuls are to be for the third time, after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, vir clarissimus, Thoth 20, indiction 9, in Memphis. To the holy monastery of the one of pious memory […] […] [verso] † Deed of gift of various properties by Apphous, chief reader of the hamlet of Metrodoros, to the holy monastery of Saint Jeremias on the mountain of Memphis, through you, the most God-fearing Alexis, superior and archimandrite, and Danielios […] and […]

The monastery of Apa Jeremias at Saqqara, on the desert edge ("mountain") of Memphis, is meant. The date follows the regnal and indiction formula: Thoth 20 of indiction 9 corresponds to 17 September 545.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schenkungsurkunde). 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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cpr.10.122

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Memphis

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