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Inscription #1
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ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦἐν ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου καὶ μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Μαυρικίου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ αὐτοκράτοροςΑὐγούστου ἔτους ἑπτακαιδεκάτου, ὑπατείαςὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου ἔτους ἑξκαιδεκάτου μηνὸς Παχὼν εἰκὰς ἰνδικτίωνοςἰνδικτίωνος τρίτης ἐν Μέμφει. υἱῷ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ εὐκλεεστάτου στρατηλάτου Αὐρήλιοι ἸωάννηςἸωάννης σκύτηςσκύτης υἱὸςυἱὸς τοῦ μακαρίου Ἠλία, καὶ Μηνᾶς ναύτης, υἱὸςυἱὸς τοῦ μακαρίου ΣαλαμίνουΣυλαμίνου, καὶ πωμαρίτηςπομαρίτης τῆς ὑμῶν ἐνδοξότητος, υἱὸςυἱὸς τοῦ μακαρίου Πέτρου, ἀμφότεροιἀμφώτεροιἀμφότεροι ἀπὸ τῆς Μεμφιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογοῦμεν διὰ ταύτης ἡμῶν τῆς ἐγγράφου ἀσφαλείας ἐπομνύμενοι τὸν θεῖον καὶ σεβάσμιοντὸν σεβάσμιον ὅρκον καὶ τὴν βασιλικὴν σωτηρίαν ἐγγυᾶσθαι ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀναδέχεσθαι παρʼ αὐτῆς ἐφʼ ὅσον βούλεσθεβούλεσθαι χρόνον Αὐρήλιον ἄπα ΚούθιονἈπακούθιον οὕτω καλούμενον καὶ ἀρδευτὴν Ἁρφευτὴν, υἱὸνυἱὸν τοῦ μακαρίου Μηνᾶ ἐπίκλην Κούκκουμα, τὸν ἡμῶν πολίτην ἱστάμενον καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν οἰκοῦντα καὶ ταῖς ὑμῶν προστάξεσιν ἀσμένως ὑποκλινόμενονὑποκλεινόμενον μενον ἀλλ ὁπηνίκα καιρῷ τοῦτον ἐπιζητήσετεἐπιζητήσεται διαφερόντως παραδώσομενπαραδώσωμεν ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ δημοσίᾳ φρουρᾷ τῆς προαναφερομένηςπροαναφερωμένης Μεμφιτῶν πόλεως εκω ἐπέμ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκτὸς ἁγίων περιβόλων ἁγιν καὶ θείων χαρακτήρων καὶ σεπτῆς κυριακῆς ἢ ἄλλης ἀπράκτου ἡμέρας ἐὰν δὲ μὴ τὸν ἄπα Κούθιονον παραγάγωμεν, τηνικαῦτα ὑπεύθυνοι ἐσόμεθα παρασχεῖν καὶ καταβάλλειν ἐφʼ ὑμᾶςTranslations (1)
In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus, in the name of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, of the reign of the most divine and most reverent of our Master and greatest benefactor Flavius Maurice Tiberius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, in the seventeenth year of Augustus, in the sixteenth year of the consulate of the same most reverent of our Master, in the month of Pachon, the indiction of the third in Memphis. Son of Ptolemy, the most illustrious general, the Aurelios, John, son of the blessed Elijah, and Minas, sailor, son of the blessed Salaminos, and Pomarites of your honor, son of the blessed Peter, both from the city of the Memphites, to rejoice. We confess through this written security of ours, swearing the divine and venerable oath and the royal safety to guarantee ourselves and to accept on behalf of it as long as you wish, Aurelios from Kouthion, so-called, and irrigator Arpheuton, son of the blessed Menas, nicknamed Koukouma, our fellow citizen residing and willingly complying with your commands, but whenever you search for him exceptionally, we will deliver him to you in the public guard of the aforementioned city of the Memphites on the appointed day, beyond the holy enclosures and divine characters and sacred Sunday or other unworkable day. But if we do not produce the man called Kouthion, then we shall be liable to provide and pay upon you.
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