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Settlement between three brothers and their sister TM 22779Oberägypten21. Juni 561

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Opening of a settlement agreement (dialysis) between three brothers, Heraklammon, Loulous and Menas, sons of the late Sarapion, and their full sister Ama Leet, whose husband guarantees her obligations. It was drawn up on 21 June 561 in Upper Egypt; the terms of the settlement are lost.

In English machine translation

† In the reign of our most divine master Flavius Justinian, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year thirty-five, in the twentieth year after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, Pauni twenty-seventh, of the tenth indiction […] † This comprehensive settlement, being valid wherever it is produced, they make and execute with one another, written in two identical copies […] papyrus for security: on the one part Aurelii Heraklammon and Loulous and Menas, the three full brothers by the father Sarapion of blessed memory, who sign below; and on the other part Aurelia Ama Leet, their full sister by the same parents, her husband standing surety and taking responsibility for her person, with all the heads and agreements contained herein, at his own risk and that of all his property […] of his order of the aforesaid […] [… lines lost …]

The dating formula is largely restored from the standard Justinianic pattern. A dialysis is a formal settlement ending a dispute, often over an inheritance.

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 · 21. Juni 561 · Oberägypten

† βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Ἰουστινιανοῦ τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους τριακοστοῦ πέμπτου μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Βασιλείου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Παῦνι εἰκὰς ἑβδόμη τῆς δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος[…] † τήνδε τὴν περιεκτικὴν διάλυσινβεβαίαν οὖ…