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Heading of an estate account submitted by Paulos, steward of a group of estate districts including Aspidas, Kyamon, Perouen and Spania, to the great landowner Flavius Apion at Oxyrhynchus. It records receipts and expenditures for a 14th indiction, but only the opening survives.
A prostasia was an administrative district of the Apion estate, managed by a pronoetes (steward). The 14th indiction under Apion II, consul in 539, would fall in the mid-6th century AD, though no date is given in the records.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Receipts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Φλαυίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ κόμετι τῶν καθοσιωμένων δομεστικῶν καὶ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων ὀρδιναρίων καὶ πατρικίῳ γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει λόγος λημμάτων καὶ ἀναλωμάτων γενομένων διʼ ἐμοῦ Παύλου προνοητοῦ προστασίας Ἀσπιδᾶ καὶ Κυαμῶνος καὶ Φ…νω καὶ Π…
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