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p.mich.20.800 Juni - Dez. 354Oxyrhynchos

Undertaking by a Boatman to Deliver Wheat to Alexandria via HGV-meta

Undertaking by a boat captain to deliver wheat to Alexandria. A sworn undertaking from Oxyrhynchus, AD 354, in which the boat captain Aurelius Apphous acknowledges to the city councillors overseeing grain shipments that he has loaded wheat of the 13th indiction and will deliver it to the public granaries at Alexandria. The councillor and prytanis Aurelius Bernikianos stands as his guarantor. machine translation

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[column i] [… 6 lines lost …] [column ii] ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου Αὐγούστου τὸ ζ καὶ Κωνσταντίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ γ[…] Αὐρηλίοις Εὐλογίῳ Εὐλογίου καὶ Διογένει Διογένους καὶ[…] καὶ Δωροθέῳ Θωνίου Πασίωνος καὶ Ἀπολλ[…]τοῖς πᾶσι βουλευταῖς τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως καὶ ἐπιμεληταῖς σίτου Ἀλεξανδρείας παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀπφοῦ Τιθοῆτος ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου κυβερνήτου πλοίου[…] μετʼ ἐγγύου τῆς τοῦ γόμου παραδόσεως καὶ τοῦ ἐπενεγκεῖν ἐκ πλήρους ἄποχα γράμματα Αὐρηλίου Βερνικιανοῦ βουλευτοῦ ἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ὁμολογοῦμεν ὀμνύντες τὸν σεβάσμιον θεῖον ὅρκον τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Κωνσταντίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος, ἐγὼ μὲν ὁ κυβερνήτης παρειληφέναι καὶ ἐμβεβλῆσθαι εἰς τὸ προκείμενον πλοῖον ἀπὸ γενήματος τῆς εὐτυχοῦς ιγ νέας ἰνδικτίονος σίτου νέου καθαροῦ ἀδόλου καὶ ἀβρόχου καὶ ἐκτὸς πάσης αἰτίας καθεστηκότος μέτρῳ δημοσίῳ μετρήσει τῇ κελευσθείσῃ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀρτάβας […] τὸ δὲ δεῖγμα ἀκέραιον βασταχθὲν καὶ συμβληθὲν πρὸς τὸν γόμον ἐφάνη ὀρθὸν καὶ αἱ ἀρτάβαι ἠνέχθησαν πρὸς λιτρισμὸν ἑξῆς …[…] καὶ ἦξεν ὁ ξέστης λίτραν α οὐγκίας γ, τὸν δὲ γόμον κατενέγκω ἐπὶ τὴν λαμπροτάτην Ἀλεξάνδρειαν καὶ παραδώσω εἰς τοὺς ἐκεῖσε δημοσίους θησαυροὺς ἀριθμῷ πλήρης καὶ τῆς παραδόσεως ἄποχα γράμματα ὑποδέξασθαι ἐπ’ ὀνόματος ὑμῶν τῶν ἐπιμελητῶν, ἐγὼ δὲ ὁ ἐγγυητὴς ἑκουσίᾳ καὶ αὐθαιρέτῳ γνώμῃ ἐγγυᾶσθαι τὸν προκείμενον κυβερνήτην παραδίδοντα τὸν γόμον[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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[column i] [… 6 lines lost …] [column ii] In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 7th time and Constantius the most noble Caesar for the 3rd time, […] To the Aurelii Eulogios son of Eulogios and Diogenes son of Diogenes and […] and Dorotheos son of Thonios grandson of Pasion and Apoll[…], all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites and overseers of the grain for Alexandria, from Aurelius Apphous son of Tithoes, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, captain of a boat […], with a guarantor for the delivery of the cargo and for producing in full the receipts, Aurelius Bernikianos, councillor, prytanis in office of the same city. We acknowledge, swearing the august divine oath of our masters Constantius Augustus and Constantius the most noble Caesar, I the captain, that I have received and loaded onto the aforesaid boat from the produce of the fortunate 13th new indiction new wheat, clean, unadulterated, not wetted and free of all fault, by the public measure, with the measuring ordered for this purpose, […] artabas; and the sample, carried intact and compared with the cargo, appeared correct, and the artabas were brought for weighing in succession […], and the xestes weighed 1 pound 3 ounces; and that I will carry the cargo down to the most splendid Alexandria and deliver it into the public granaries there in full number, and receive receipts for the delivery in the name of you the overseers; and I the guarantor, of my own free and voluntary will, that I stand surety for the aforesaid captain delivering the cargo […] [… lines lost …]

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