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p.mert.1.18 7. Aug. 161Oxyrhynchos

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Power of attorney for a freedman to petition the prefect in Alexandria. A contract appointing a representative, drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 7 August 161. Three former gymnasiarchs, two of them brothers and former high priests of the imperial cult, authorize a freedman named Sarapion to travel to Alexandria and petition the prefect Volusius Maecianus on their behalf, as the harvest keeps them at home. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

…μωλ τούτου τὸ ἴσον ἐγδοθήτω. ἔτους πρώτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Καισαρείου ιδ ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος. ὁμολογοῦσι Σαραπίων καὶ Εὐδαίμων ἀμφότεροι Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου μητρὸς Νικαρίου καὶ ὁ τούτων ἀνεψιὸς Ἀμμώνιος Παυσανίου τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου μητρὸς Ἐμσιουήσιος οἱ τρεῖς γεγυμνασιαρχηκότες τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως οἱ δὲ ἕτεροι αὐτῶν Σαραπίων καὶ Εὐδαίμων γενόμενοι ἀρχιερεῖς τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν καὶ θεῶν ἁπάντων Σαραπίωνι ἀπελευθέρῳ Σαραπίωνος Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Φανίου θέσει Κλεουχάρους ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐν ἀγυϊᾷ, οὐ δυνάμενοι οἱ ὁμολογοῦντες ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος καταπλεῦσαι εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν διὰ τὴν νῦν ἐπιοῦσαν συνκομιδὴν καὶ ἑτέρων βιωτικῶν περισπασμῶν χάριν συνεστακέναι αὐτοὺς κατὰ τήνδε τὴν ὁμολογίαν τὸν προγεγραμμένον Σαραπίωνα ἀπελεύθερον Σαραπίωνος καταπλεύσοντα εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν καὶ ἐντευξόμενον τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ ἡγεμόνι Οὐολουσίῳ Μαικιανῷ ἢ καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν αὐτὸς δοκιμάσῃ ἑτέρῳ κρίτῃ περὶ τοῦ ἀχθέντος τῷ αὐτῷ λαμπροτάτῳ ἡγεμόνι τῷ ἔναγχος γενομένῳ διαλογισμῷ τοῦ νομοῦ εἴδους […]…νεν [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] of this let a copy be issued. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, month Kaisareios 14, at Oxyrhynchus city in the Thebaid. Sarapion and Eudaimon, both sons of Sarapion son of Ammonios, their mother being Nikarion, and their cousin Ammonios son of Pausanias son of Ammonios, his mother being Emsiouesis, all three former gymnasiarchs of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and the other two of them, Sarapion and Eudaimon, having been high priests of the lords Augusti and of all the gods, acknowledge to Sarapion, freedman of Sarapion son of Sarapion son of Phanias, by adoption son of Kleoucharos, from the same city, in the street, that, since those making the acknowledgement are unable at present to sail down to Alexandria because of the harvest now coming on and for the sake of other distractions of daily life, they have appointed by this agreement the aforementioned Sarapion, freedman of Sarapion, to sail down to Alexandria and to petition the most illustrious prefect Volusius Maecianus, or also whatever other judge he himself approves, concerning the matter brought before the same most illustrious prefect at the recent assize of the nome, of the kind […] […]

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