Fragment of a copy of an agreement exchanged between residents of a tribe (district) of Oxyrhynchus, including the Dromos of Thoeris quarter, and Aurelius Probatios. It refers to a petition and to the corrector, the provincial governor, and is dated by the post-consulship of Arcadius and Bauto, Pachon 27 (May 386).
In English machine translation
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[In the year after the consulship of our] lord Arcadius, eternal Augustus, for the 1st time, and Flavius Ba[uto, vir clarissimus,] […] Pachon 27.
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The date is reconstructed from the consular formula (consulship of Arcadius and Bauto, 385), so Pachon 27 of the following year falls in May 386. The corrector was the governor of the province of Augustamnica in this period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of Official Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.