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p.oxy.16.1981 25. Okt. 612Oxyrhynchos

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Undertaking by two villagers of Ophis to Flavius Apion not to steal or harbour robbers. Two villagers from Ophis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, Phib and Apollos, undertake to the great landowner Flavius Apion, through his servant Menas, not to steal irrigation machinery or oxen nor harbour robbers, on penalty of 24 gold solidi per offence. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 612 by the notary Ioannes for the illiterate parties. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἡρακλείου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους γ Φαῶφι κη 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 ἐνοχὴν Αὐρήλιοι Φὶβ υἱὸς Διοσκόρου καὶ Ἀπολλῶς υἱὸς Ἀνοῦπ μητρὸς Φιλοξένης ἀπὸ κώμης Ὤφεως τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ παγαρχουμένης παρὰ τοῦ ἐνδόξου ὑμῶν οἴκου οἴκου. ὁμολογῶ τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὑπερφυείᾳ διὰ τῶν αὐτῇ προσηκόντων ὡς εἴ ποτε καιρῷ ἢ χρόνῳ φανῶμεν κλέψαντες ἢ μηχανικὰ σκεύη ἢ βοίδια ἢ οἱανδήποτε κλοπὴν ποιήσαντες ἢ ὑποδέξασθαι λῃστάς, ὁμολογοῦμεν παρασχεῖν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὑπερφυείᾳ ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου ἐγχειρήματος χρυσοῦ νομίσματα εἴκοσι τέσσερα κινδύνῳ ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς ἡμῶν ὑποστάσεως. κυρία ἡ ὁμολογία ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. † τὸ κοινὸν τῶν ὀνομάτων στοιχεῖ ἡμῖν ὡς πρόκειται. Ἰωάννης ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἀγραμμάτων ὄντων. ☧ di emu Ioannu eteliothh. [v] † ὁμολογία τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Ὤφεως τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ. †

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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 28, indiction 1. To Flavius Apion, the all-praiseworthy 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 all-praiseworthy man, the right of action and liability, the Aurelii Phib son of Dioskoros and Apollos son of Anoup, mother Philoxene, from the village of Ophis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, whose pagarchy is held by your glorious house. I acknowledge to your magnificence, through those who belong to it, that if at any season or time we are found to have stolen either machine equipment or oxen, or to have committed any theft whatsoever, or to have harboured robbers, we agree to pay to your magnificence for each offence 24 gold solidi, at the risk of ourselves and our property. The agreement, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † The joint (?) of our names agrees with us as stated above. I, Ioannes, wrote on their behalf, as they are illiterate. ☧ Executed through me, Ioannes. [verso] † Agreement of the men from the village of Ophis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. †

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