p.amst;1;48

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Translation (Model: gpt-6-luna, Batch ID: 256)

Extracted Text and Translation

Koine Greek

Normalized transcription; damaged or uncertain wording is shown in square brackets.

Ἑρμουπολίτου νομοῦ τῷ ἁγιωτάτῳ πατρὶ ἀββᾷ Σερήνῳ, ἀρχιμανδρίτῃ τοῦ ἁγίου μοναστηρίου ἀββᾶ Ἀπολλῶτος, ἐνορίᾳ [—] κώμης Τιτκώεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ, χαίρειν.

Ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι καὶ πεπληρῶσθαι παρὰ τῆς σῆς εὐλαβείας τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμφωνημένης τελείας καὶ ἀξίας τιμῆς οἴνου νέου μούστου κνιδίων τετρακοσίων πεντήκοντα· γίνεται οἴνου κνίδια υνʹ, ἅπερ σοι ἀποδώσω ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τρύγης, τῷ Μεσορὴ μηνὶ καρπῶν τῆς εὐτυχοῦς πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος, ἐν οἴνῳ νέῳ καλλίστῳ καὶ εὐαρέστῳ, μέτρῳ ἐκ ξεστῶν τριῶν ἑκάστου κνιδίου, σοῦ παρέχοντος τὰ κοῦφα αὐτῶν [ἀφ’] τῶν νέων.

Εἰ δὲ εὑρεθείη ἢ ὄξος ἢ ὀζόμενος ἢ ἀποίητος ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ οἴνου ἕως τοῦ Φαμενὼθ τῆς αὐτῆς ἰνδικτίονος …

The quantity is written as υνʹ, meaning 450. The address and the wording near the end of the wine-delivery terms are partly unclear in the supplied text.

Latin

No Latin text is identifiable. The final word, “vestiges,” appears to be an English editorial note rather than part of the document.

English Translation

To the most holy father, Abba Serenos, archimandrite of the holy monastery of Abba Apollos, in the parish of [unclear], in the village of Titkois in the same nome: greetings.

I acknowledge that I have received and been fully paid by your Reverence, according to the agreement between us, the full and proper price for 450 knidia of new wine (must)—that is, 450 knidia of wine. I shall deliver them to you at vintage time, in the month of Mesore, during the harvest of the fortunate fifteenth indiction, as excellent and acceptable new wine, measured at three xestai for each knidion, with you supplying their empty [vessels?] from the new ones [wording uncertain].

But if any of that same wine should be found to be vinegar, foul-smelling, or defective/unfit, by Phamenoth of the same indiction …

The supplied passage breaks off mid-clause.

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