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p.oxy.1.139 26. Okt. 612Oxyrhynchos

Promise to be Honest via HGV-meta

Undertaking by a chief guard of Adaiou to Flavius Apion against theft. A contract in which Aurelius Menas, chief guard of the village of Adaiou, promises the great landowner Flavius Apion that he will pay 24 gold solidi for each case if he is found to have stolen irrigation machinery or oxen, committed any theft, or harboured robbers. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in October 612 and signed for the illiterate Menas by Ioannes. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ του θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἡρακλείου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους γ, Φαῶφι κθ, ἰνδικτίονος α. Φλαουίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ πανευφήμῳ καὶ ὑπερφυεστάτῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων καὶ πατρικίῳ, γεουχοῦντι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει, διὰ Μηνᾶ οἰκέτου τοῦ ἐπερωτῶντος καὶ προσπορίζοντος τῷ ἰδίῳ δεσπότῃ τῷ αὐτῷ πανευφήμῳ ἀνδρὶ τὴν ἀγωγὴν καὶ ἐνοχήν, Αὐρήλιος Μηνᾶς πρωτοφύλαξ, υἱὸς Ὦρ μητρὸς Ἡραίδος, ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀδαίου τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ παγαρχουμένης παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας ὑπερφυείας. ὁμολογῶ τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὑπερφυείᾳ διὰ τῶν αὐτῇ προσηκόντων, ὡς εἴ ποτε καιρῷ ἢ χρόνῳ φανούμεθα κλέψαντες μηχανικὰ σκεύη ἢ βοίδια, ἢ οἱανδήποτε κλοπὴν ποιήσαντες, ἢ ὑποδέξασθαι λῃστάς, ἐπὶ τῷ ἐμὲ παρασχεῖν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὑπερφυείᾳ ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου ἐγχειρήματος χρυσίου νομίσματα εἴκοσι τέσσαρα , ἔργῳ καὶ δυνάμει ἀπαιτούμενα κινδύνῳ ἐμῷ καὶ τῆς ἐμῆς ὑποστάσεως. κυρία ἡ ὁμολογία ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα, καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. † Μηνᾶς υἱὸς Ὦρ, στοιχεῖ μοι αὕτη ἡ ὁμολογία ὡς πρόκειται. Ἰωάννης ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀγραμμάτου ὄντος. † di emu Ioannu eteliothh. [v] †ὁμολογία Μηνᾶ πρωτοφύλακος, υἱοῦ Ὦρ, ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀδαίου τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ. †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, in the reign of our most divine and most pious master, the greatest benefactor, Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 3, Phaophi 29, indiction 1. To Flavius Apion, the most renowned and most magnificent former consul and patrician, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same most renowned man, the right of action and liability, Aurelius Menas, chief guard, son of Hor, his mother being Herais, from the village of Adaiou in the Oxyrhynchite nome, which is under the pagarchy of your magnificence. I acknowledge to your magnificence, through those who belong to you, that if at any occasion or time we are shown to have stolen machine equipment or oxen, or to have committed any theft whatsoever, or to have harboured robbers, I shall pay to your magnificence for each offence 24 gold solidi, to be exacted in fact and in force at my risk and that of my property. The acknowledgement, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † I, Menas son of Hor: this acknowledgement is satisfactory to me as stated above. I, Ioannes, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. † Executed through me, Ioannes. [verso] † Acknowledgement of Menas, chief guard, son of Hor, from the village of Adaiou in the Oxyrhynchite nome. †

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