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Beginning of a surety contract in which several men from a hamlet in the Arsinoite nome, including a priest, an eirenarch (village peace officer) and Joseph son of Gennadios, guarantee to the pagarch Flavius Kyrillos that a person will be produced when required. It was drawn up in Arsinoe in October 595.
The guaranteed person and the terms are lost; the identification as a surety for appearance rests on the standard formula. An eirenarch was a local official responsible for public order.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gestellungsbürgschaft an den Pagarchen Flavius Kyrillos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν. Βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαουίου Μαυρικίου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου ἔτους ιδ, Φαῶφι θ, ιδ ἰνδικτίωνος ἐν Ἀρσινοϊτῶν πόλει. Φλαουίῳ Κυρίλλῳ τῷ ἐνδοξοτάτῳ στρατηλάτῃ, …
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