Renunciation Contract Sample Contracts
ContractRenunciation Contract • October 30th, 2018
This papyrus contains the end of a contract, possibly a contract of land renunciation (ἀποταγή), see n. to l. 3. In P.Mon.Apollo I 25, a renunciation contract for monastery property, a monk from the Hermopolite monastery of Apa Apollo, renounces one of his two plots to the dikaion of the monastery through Apa Daniel, the archimandrite. As monks were liable to pay taxes (demosion) on their property (P.Mon.Apollo I, p. 19-20, 23-24), financial problems might force a return of the property to the monastery which could then assign it to someone else (cf. P.Mon.Apollo I 25-26; Richter, P.Clackson, pp. 205-212). The current document preserves the agreement by the issuing party, brother Theodose (l. 3), probably a monk of the monastery, and a deacon (l. 4), followed by three witness subscriptions (ll. 5-7).