The end of a Coptic legal acknowledgment (homologia) from Aphrodito, concerning obligations relating to a lease and a possible journey south. It closes with the subscriptions of the party Andreas and of witnesses including Erythrios son of Stephanos of Antinoou and Apa Antonios of the monastery of Apa Jeremias, and the notary Ioannes.
In English machine translation
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[…] and you […]
We therefore acknowledge that, behold, the […]
according to the order of the […]
if we go south at any time […]
the lease […]
which they took out […] you […]
upon it, before you […]
for this matter forever, whether we […]
the Almighty and the s[afety] […]
† I, Andreas, the [son of] […]
this acknowledgment, as it is written above […]
† I, Erythrios, son of the late Stephanos, the man of Antinoou, happening to be [in] […] acknowledgment at the request of the one who drew it up. † † I, Apa Anto[nios] […] of the monastery of Apa Jere[mias] […]
† I, Zacharias, son of the late B[…]
† I, Ioannes […], notary, with God's help, wrote […]
The beginning of the document is lost, so the exact obligation acknowledged is unclear. 'Antinoou' probably refers to Antinoopolis.
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.