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Undertaking by an estate farmer to Flavius Apion concerning a water-wheel TM 22682Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)12. Sept. 567

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Beginning of a written undertaking by Aurelius Epimachos, a registered estate farmer from the hamlet of Hekkaidekatou, to the patrician landowner Flavius Apion, made through Apion's servant Menas. It concerns an estate water-wheel irrigating arable land, likely a request for or receipt of equipment; it was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in September 567.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the reign and consulship of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Iustinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 2, Thoth 14, indiction 1, in the city of Oxyrhynchus. To Flavius Apion, the all-renowned and most magnificent former ordinary consul and patrician, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same all-renowned man, the right of action and liability, Aurelius Epimachos also called Apimas, son of Lamion, mother Herais, originating from the hamlet of Hekkaidekatou in the Oxyrhynchite nome, belonging to your magnificence, its registered farmer (enapographos georgos), greetings. Since there is now need for the estate water-wheel under my charge, called […], irrigating arable land […] [… lines lost …] [verso] † Written undertaking of Epimachos […]

An enapographos georgos was a farmer bound and registered to a large estate, here the Apion estate. The text breaks off before the actual terms of the undertaking, and much of the water-wheel clause is restored.

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 · 12. Sept. 567 · Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)

[r] † βασιλείας καὶ ὑπατείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους β Θὼθ ιδ ἰνδικτίονος α ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων ὀρδιναρίων καὶ πατρικίῳ γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦ…