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Opening of a document, probably a contract or formal undertaking, addressed to the patrician Flavius Strategius, a great landowner at Oxyrhynchus, through his servant Menas. It is dated 18 February 542, in the reign of Justinian; the body of the text is lost.
The phrase about the servant making the formal question and acquiring for his master is standard in Apion-estate contracts, where a slave or servant concluded the stipulation on the owner's behalf. The type of contract cannot be identified because the body is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment addressed to Flavius Strategius I). 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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