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Beginning of a contract with acknowledgment by Aurelius TM 22316Herakleopolites244 - 249

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Opening of a contract or formal acknowledgment dated by the joint reign of the emperors Philip the Arab and his son Philip, with a reference to the eponymous priests of Alexandria. A man named Aurelius makes an acknowledgment, and a party is described by age and a scar. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[Year …] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pius Felix and Marcus [Julius Philippus Caesar, Augusti], [in the time of the priests in office in Alexandria and the others that are writ]ten in common, in the month […] […] Aurelius […] [acknowl]edges […] [about … years old], eight (?) […], a scar […] […]

The dating by the priests of Alexandria is a formula typical of formal contracts. The description by age and scar was the standard way of identifying parties in documents of this kind.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 244 - 249 · Herakleopolites

ἔτους[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Ἰουλίου Φιλίππου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ Μάρκου Ἰουλίου Φιλίππου Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶν ἐφʼ ἱερέων τῶν ὄντων ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν γραφομένων κοινῶν μηνὸς[…] […]ὁμολογεῖ Αὐρήλιος […] […]ὡς ἐτῶν[…] ὀκτὼ οὐλὴ[…] [… ? lines lost …]