One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36156
Beginning of an agreement with Christian invocation TM 36156Provenance unknown (Province of Egypt)VI-VII A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Opening of a Christian legal agreement from Byzantine Egypt, beginning with an invocation of Christ, the Virgin Mary (Theotokos) and the saints and a date by the era of Diocletian. The verso docket identifies it as an agreement (homologia) made by a person whose name is lost.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, God and our Saviour, and of our Lady the holy […] Theotokos and all the saints, in the year […] of Diocletian […]
to the […]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
[verso]
† Agreement made by […]
Although catalogued as a theological fragment, the invocation formula, era date and verso docket show it is the start of a contract. The date by the 'year of Diocletian' is the era later called the Era of the Martyrs.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment théologique). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.got.96
[r] † ἐν ὀνοματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆροϲ ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς ἁγίας […] θεοτόκου καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων, ἔτους […] Διοκλητιανοῦ […] τῷ […] …[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] † ὁμολογία γενομένη ὑπὸ […]