One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 901296

Bilingual Greek-Latin document with invocation and dating formula TM 901296unbekannt590 - 591

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Opening of a late bilingual Greek and Latin document of AD 590-591, with a Latin dating line followed by the standard Christian invocation and regnal dating formula in Greek. Fragments of the Latin text mention Achilleus and someone acting on behalf of Heraiskos and Kyriakos.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] day 8, on the eighth day before the Ides of […] [In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, God] and our Savior, in the reign […] […] in the ninth year, on the eighth day before the I[des] […] […] Achilleus (?) […] […] on behalf of Heraiskos and Kyriakos (?) […] […] [… lines lost …]

The ninth regnal year fits the emperor Maurice (590-591). The Latin lines are written in a cursive that is only partly legible, so the names and their roles are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as A late bilingual (Greek-Latin) document). 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.messeri.45

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

[…]…d…ie……e…[…] […]…viii die viii Idus […] ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν βασιλείας […] […]του ἔτους ἐνάτου τῇ πρὸ ὀκτὼ εἰδῶν […] […]…e…ori… Achilleo vloffsch[…] […]…ri pro Heraisco Cirioque […] […]…[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]