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Beginning of a deed of Theophilos and Severos for the monastery of Apa Phoibammon TM 86019Theben

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Opening of a Coptic legal deed in which the brothers Theophilos and Severos, sons of Elias, living in Thebes in the district of Hermonthis, acknowledge a document in favour of the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme, represented by the deacon and superior Souros. Only the preamble survives, so the actual transaction is lost.

In English machine translation

† In the name of God the Almighty. Written in the month Tybi, day 1, indiction 6. † † We, Theophilos son of Elias and Severos son of Elias, people of the holy district (of Jeme?), but now living in Thebes in the district of Hermonthis, these who order the hypographeus (subscriber) after them to subscribe for them, and who ask other free men to witness at their request and their commission, who will witness this document of right (dikaion) to the holy monastery of the holy Apa Phoibammon of the mountain of Jeme, through you, Souros the deacon and the superior (proestos), and through anyone who will administer after you in this monastery forever. We acknowledge of our own free will […] […]

The text breaks off after the acknowledgement formula, so the type of transaction (possibly a donation) is unknown. A dikaion is a general term for a legal title deed.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang einer Urkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.kru.118

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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