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p.mert.1.36 360Oxyrhynchos

Acknowledgement of Indebtedness via HGV-meta

Acknowledgement of debt of wheat for rent by Aurelius Pekysis. A signed acknowledgement by Aurelius Pekysis, a villager of Pankylis Apatou, that he owes 2 1/2 artabas of wheat as rent for land he will farm to Gaius Julius Leukadios, a town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, acting through his steward Neiketes. He promises to repay in Epeiph; a scribe signed for him because he was illiterate. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 360. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίων Εὐσεβίου καὶ Ὑπατίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων. Γαίῳ Ἰουλίῳ Λευκαδίῳ[…]… μαλανου πρυτανεύσαντι γυμνασιαρχήσαντι βουλευτῇ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως διὰ Νεικήτου προνοητοῦ Αὐρήλιος Πεκῦσις Παπνουθίου ἀπὸ ἐποικίου σου Πανκύλεως Ἀπατοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ὀφείλειν σοι καὶ ἔχειν παρʼ ἐμαυτῷ ὑπὲρ γινομένου φόρου ἧς γεωργήσω γῆς τῆς τρίτης ἰνδικτίονος σίτου καθαροῦ ἀρτάβας δύο ἥμισυ ὅνπερ πυρὸν νέον καθαρὸν ἄδολον κεκοσκινευμένον μέτρῳ δεκάτῳ τῆς οὐσίας ἐπάναγκες ἀποδώσω σοι τῷ Ἐπεὶφ μηνὶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους λϛ ε […]αλεκ πάσης σοι τῆς πράξεως παρά τε ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων μοι πάντων· κύριον τὸ χειρόγραφον ἁπλοῦν γραφὲν καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. Αὐρήλιος Πεκῦσις Παπνουθίου ὀφείλω καὶ ἔχω παρʼ ἐμαυτῷ ὑπὲρ τοῦ φόρου σίτου ἀρτάβας δύο ἥμισυ καὶ ἀποδώσω ὡς πρόκειται. Καττᾶς Εὐσταθίου ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα μὴ εἰδότος. [v] διὰ Πεκυσίου ἀπὸ Πανκύλεως σίτου ἀρτάβαι β 𐅵

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] After the consulship of Flavii Eusebius and Hypatius, the most illustrious. To Gaius Julius Leukadios […] …malanos(?), former prytanis, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Neiketes, steward, Aurelius Pekysis son of Papnouthis, from your hamlet of Pankylis Apatou, greetings. I acknowledge that I owe you and have in my keeping, on account of the rent due for the land which I shall farm in the third indiction, 2 1/2 artabas of clean grain, which wheat, new, clean, unadulterated and sieved, by the tenth-measure of the estate, I shall of necessity repay to you in the month of Epeiph of the present year 36 […], you having the right of execution against me and against all my possessions. This handwritten bond, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Pekysis son of Papnouthis, owe and have in my keeping on account of the rent 2 1/2 artabas of grain and I shall repay as stated above. I, Kattas son of Eustathios, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. [verso] Through Pekysis from Pankylis: grain, 2 1/2 artabas.

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