Opening of a contract drawn up through the overseers of the record office (agoranomeion), dated by the joint reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla and by the priests in Alexandria. The parties, among them a Philantinoos son of […]odoros, acknowledge an agreement whose terms are lost; only their descriptions with identifying scars survive.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Imperator Caesar [Lucius Septimius Severus and Imperator]
[Caesar] Marcus Aurelius [Antoninus Augusti …]
[in the time of the priests] who are in [Alexandria and the others who are written]
[in common, month …] third, through the [overseers of the agoranomeion …]
[…] Philantinoos […] acknowledge […]
[…] son of […]odoros, whose mother is […]
[…] (with a scar) […] left foot […]
[…] a scar on the foot […]
[…]
The agoranomeion was the public notarial office where contracts were drawn up and registered. Parties were identified by physical marks such as scars, as here.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.