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Opening of a private legal document from the Oxyrhynchite nome, dated by the regnal and consular years of the emperor Maurice. It is addressed to Anastasia, a woman of the highest rank and daughter of a man of glorious memory, acting through a representative named Flavius. The substance of the document is lost.
Only the dating protocol and address survive, so the type of agreement cannot be determined. The day and month are not preserved in the surviving text, and the reference to Herakleopolis is largely restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privaturkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Μαυρικίου Νέου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγουστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους δεκάτου ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτουἡμῶν δεσπότου …
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