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Beginning of an acknowledgement in which Aurelius Alypios, a symmachos (official messenger) from the village of Kerkethoeris, confirms receiving something from Aurelia Enkia daughter of Pekysis. It is dated to Hathyr 16 of the 11th indiction, the year after the consulship of Flavius Kyros (AD 441, so AD 442), in the Arsinoite nome.
A symmachos was a village messenger or courier in late antique Egypt; there is no exact English equivalent. What was received is lost with the rest of the text.
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.
[r] μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίου Κύρου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Ἁθὺρ ιϛ τῆς ἑνδεκάτης ἰνδικτίωνος. Αὐρήλιος Ἀλύπιος υἱὸς Νεφερᾶ σύμμαχος ἀπὸ κώμης Κερκεθωήρεος Αὐρηλίᾳ Ἐνκίᾳ θυγατρὶ Πεκυσίου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ ἐπὶ λόγου [… ? lines lost …] [v] ☧ Ἀλυπίου συμμάχου[…]
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