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p.mich.20.803 25. Nov. 366Oxyrhynchos
Undertaking by a Boatman to Deliver Wheat to Alexandria via HGV-meta
Boat captain's sworn undertaking to deliver clean wheat to Alexandria. Sworn undertaking by Aurelius Olympios, captain of a boat owned by the councillor Theogonios, to the Oxyrhynchite councillors in charge of the Alexandrian grain, that he has loaded 632 artabas of clean wheat, sorted free of barley, and will deliver it to the state granaries at Alexandria, accepting liability if it is found impure. Written at Oxyrhynchus in November 366. machine translation
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TM 140149.
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- Undertaking by a Boatman to Deliver Wheat to Alexandria HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos25. Nov. 366
- P.Mich.inv. 4017 APIS-papyrus Oxyrhynchos25. Nov. 366
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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ὑπατείας Γρατιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου υἱοῦ τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ
αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Δαγαλλαίφου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
Αὐρηλίοις Ἀγαθίνῳ Διδύμου καὶ Ἰερεμίᾳ Ἀχιλλίωνος καὶ Πέτρῳ
Ἀγαθίνου καὶ […]ωνος καὶ Σαραπίωνι Πλουτάρχου τοῖς πᾶσι βουλευταῖς τῆς
Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἐπιμεληταῖς σίτου Ἀλεξανδρείας
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ὀλυμπίου Πινουθίου κυβερνήτου πλοίου Θεογονίου πολιτευομένου.
ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὸν σεβάσμιον θεῖον ὅρκον τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ καὶ Οὐάλεντος αἰωνίων Αὐγούστων […] καταχθῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν
πόλεως ἀκολούθως αἷς ἐθέμην χειρογραφίαις […] τῆς εὐτυχούσης δεκάτης νέας ἰνδικτίωνος πυροῦ νέου καθαροῦ ἀκρίθου καὶ ἀδόλου καὶ οὐχ ἕνα κόκκον κριθῶν ἔχοντος
ἀλλὰ καθαροτάτου τυγχάνοντος καὶ διὰ κριθολογίας τὴν εὑρηθεῖσαν κριθὴν ἐν τῷ
φόρτῳ ἐκλελέχθη ἐπὶ τὼ αὐτὸ ἀρταβ χλβ, τὸν δὲ γόμον παραδοῦναι εἰς τοὺς κατὰ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν θείους θησαυροὺς καὶ ἄποχα γράμματα ὑποδέξασθαι παρὰ τῆς τάξεως τοῦ κυρίου μου
διασημοτάτου ἐπάρχου τῆς ἀννώνης· εἰ δὲ κίνησίς τις γένοιτο προφάσει
κριθῶν ἢ ἄλλης τινος ῥυπαρίας διὰ τὸ προεῖναι καθαρὸν τὸν σῖτον καὶ πρὸς κόκκον ἀκριβῶς ἐκλέγοντα καὶ ἄκριθον γενόμενον ὑποδέδεγμαι δηλόνοτι ἐγὼ ὑπεύθυνος ἔσομαι τῷ προσπίπτοντι ζημιώματι καὶ οὐδὲν τὸ σύνολον ἔσχον τινι ἐνκαλεῖν περὶ τούτου εἰς τὸ ἐν μηδενὶ μεμφθῆναι ἢ ἔνοχοι εἶμεν τῷ θείῳ ὅρκῳ.
Αὐρήλιος Ὀλύμπιος Πινουθίου ἐπώμοσα τὸν θεῖον ὅρκον καὶ ἔσχον τὴν κριθολογίαν ὡς πρόκειται.
Αὐρήλιος Θῶνις ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ βραδέα γράφοντος μετ ἐμοῦ ὑποσημιουμένου.
Ὀλύμπιος σεσημείωμαι.
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συγκολλήσιμοι […]
Ἀλεξανδρείας […]
μηνὶ Νοεμβρίῳ[…]
κριθολογία.Translations (1)
[recto]
In the consulship of Gratian, most noble son of our master Valentinian, eternal Augustus, and of Dagalaifus, vir clarissimus, Hathyr 29.
To the Aurelii Agathinos son of Didymos and Ieremias son of Achillion and Petros son of Agathinos and […] son of […]on and Sarapion son of Ploutarchos, all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, curators of the grain for Alexandria,
from Aurelius Olympios son of Pinouthios, captain of the boat of Theogonios, councillor.
I acknowledge, swearing the revered divine oath of our masters Valentinian and Valens, eternal Augusti, […] to have been brought down from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, in accordance with the written undertakings which I made […] of the fortunate tenth new indiction, new wheat, clean, free of barley and unadulterated, not containing a single grain of barley but being most clean, and the barley found in the cargo having been picked out by barley-sorting, in total 632 artabas, and (I undertake) to deliver the cargo to the divine granaries at Alexandria and to receive receipts from the office of my lord the most distinguished prefect of the annona; and if any dispute should arise on the pretext of barley or any other dirt, since the grain was previously clean and was sorted exactly grain by grain and made free of barley when I received it, clearly I myself shall be liable for the resulting penalty, and I have no claim whatsoever against anyone concerning this, so that I may be blamed in nothing or be liable to the divine oath.
I, Aurelius Olympios son of Pinouthios, swore the divine oath and have carried out the barley-sorting as aforesaid.
I, Aurelius Thonis, wrote on his behalf since he writes slowly, he signing with me.
I, Olympios, have signed.
[verso]
To be glued together […]
of Alexandria […]
in the month of November […]
barley-sorting.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 140149 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;20;803 tier-1
- HGV-Text 140149 tier-1
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