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Beginning of an arbitration agreement (compromissum) drawn up at Arsinoiton Polis in the Fayum on Pharmouthi 27 of a 12th indiction. The parties, apparently people from a hamlet including one Palous, agree of their own free will to submit a dispute to arbitration; the rest is lost.
A kompromisson is a contract by which parties agree to submit their dispute to arbitrators and abide by the decision. The invocation formula points to the late Byzantine period (late 6th or 7th century AD).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schiedsvertrag). 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 καὶ τῆς δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων, Φαρμοῦθι κζ, ιβ ἰνδικτίωνος, ἐν Ἀρσινοϊτῶν πόλει. […] τόδε τὸ κομπρόμισσον ποιοῦνται πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἑκουσίᾳ γνώμῃ […]ον τῶν ἀπὸ ἐποικίου […]…
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