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p.mich.20.807 29. Aug. - 7. Sept. 372Oxyrhynchos

Declaration by a Boatman to Have Undertaken the Cleansing of Wheat via HGV-meta

Boat captain's sworn undertaking to cleanse a cargo of wheat for Alexandria. A sworn declaration by Aurelius Elias, captain of a boat, to six Oxyrhynchite councillors in charge of grain for Alexandria. He undertakes responsibility for cleansing the wheat cargo received from the landowners and accepts liability if the higher authorities complain of impurity. Written at Oxyrhynchus in late summer AD 372. machine translation

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Transcription

ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Μοδέστου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἐπάρχου τοῦ ἱεροῦ πραιτωρίου καὶ Φλαουίου Ἀρινθέου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Θὼθ …. Αὐρηλίοις Διοσκόρῳ Εὐλογίου καὶ Πέτρῳ Ἀγαθίνου καὶ Ἀγαθίνῳ Διδύμου καὶ Σαραπίωνι Πλουτάρχου καὶ Ἱέρακι Σερήνου καὶ Τιμαγένει Σερήνου τοῖς πᾶσι βουλευταῖς τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἐπιμεληταῖς σίτου Ἀλεξανδρείας παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἠλία Θωνίου ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου κυβερνήτου πλοίου Θέωνος ἀννουμέρου τάξεως τοῦ λαμπροτάτου δουκός· ἀκολούθως ᾗ ἐθέμην χειρογραφίᾳ οὗ ὑπεδεξάμην γόμου σίτου τῆς εὐτυχοῦς πρώτης νέας ἰνδικτίωνος ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὸν σεβάσμιον θεῖον ὅρκον τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ καὶ Οὐάλεντος καὶ Γρατιανοῦ αἰωνίων Αὐγούστων ὑποδεδέχθαι με τὴν κριθολογίαν παρὰ τῶν ἐμβαλαμένων κτητόρων πρὸς τὸ, εἰ συμβαίη ὃ μὴ εἴοιτο κίνησίν τινα γενέσθαι ἢ ἄλλης τινὸς ῥυπαρίας ὑπὸ τῆς μείζονος ἐξουσίας προφάσει κριθολογίας τοῦ αὐτοῦ γόμου ἐμὲ τὸν κυβερνήτην ὑποστῆναι τὸ περὶ τούτου ἀποβησόμενον εἰς τὸ ἐμ μηδένι μεμφθῆναι ἢ ἔνοχος εἴην τῷ θεῖῳ ὅρκῳ. Αὐρήλιος Ἠλίας Θωνίου ὤμοσα τὸν θεῖον ὅρκον καὶ ἔσχον τὴν κριθολογίαν ὡς πρόκειται. Αὐρήλιος Θώνιος Ἀμμωνίου ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα μὴ εἰδότος.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
In the consulship of Flavius Modestus, the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Flavius Arintheus, the most illustrious, Thoth […]. To the Aurelii Dioskoros son of Eulogios, Petros son of Agathinos, Agathinos son of Didymos, Sarapion son of Ploutarchos, Hierax son of Serenos and Timagenes son of Serenos, all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, curators of the grain for Alexandria, from Aurelius Elias son of Thonios, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, captain of the boat of Theon, of the numerus of the staff of the most illustrious dux. In accordance with the written undertaking which I made for the cargo of wheat that I received, of the auspicious first new indiction, from the same Oxyrhynchite nome, I acknowledge, swearing the venerable divine oath of our masters Valentinian, Valens and Gratian, eternal Augusti, that I have taken over the cleansing of the grain from the landowners who loaded it, on condition that, if it should happen, which may it not, that any action or any other complaint of impurity arise from the higher authority on the pretext of the cleansing of the same cargo, I the captain shall bear whatever results from this, so that you may be blamed in no respect; otherwise may I be liable to the divine oath. I, Aurelius Elias son of Thonios, swore the divine oath and have received the cleansing as stated above. I, Aurelius Thonios son of Ammonios, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters.

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