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Opening of a contract drawn up through the agoranomeion (notarial record office) in the Herakleopolite nome during the reign of Severus Alexander. Only the dating formula and the start of the agreement survive, naming one party as a woman called Aurelia.
The epiteretai were overseers who ran the agoranomeion, the public office where contracts were registered, under a lease from the state. The nature of the agreement is lost.
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.
ἔτους[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀλεξάνδρου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ ἐφʼ ἱερέων τῶν ὄντων ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν γραφομένων κοινῶν μηνὸς[…] ἑβδόμῃ διʼ ἐπιτηρητῶν ἀγορανομίας[…]τοῦ ὑπὲρ Μέμφιν Ἡρακλεοπολίτου · ὁμολογοῦσιν[…] ἡ μὲν Αὐρηλία [… ? lin…
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