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p.oxy.16.1988 29. Dez. 587Oxyrhynchos

Receipt for an Axle via HGV-meta

Receipt for a new water-wheel axle issued to the Apion estate. A written acknowledgement by Aurelius Phoibammon, a registered farmer of the hamlet of Neon, to the heirs of the patrician Apion, confirming that he received a new axle for the estate water-wheel he operates. The axle was bought locally and its price credited to him; it is to serve for five years, and the old axle was handed to the doorkeeper. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 29 December 587. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Τιβερίου Μαυρικίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ϛ, ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου ἔτους ε, Τῦβι β, ἰνδικτίωνος ἕκτης. τοῖς ὑπερφυεστάτοις διαδόχοις τοῦ τῆς εὐκλεοῦς μνήμης Ἀπίωνος γενομένου πρωτοπατρικίου γεουχοῦσιν καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει διὰ Μηνᾶ οἰκέτου τοῦ ἐπερωτῶντος καὶ προσπορίζοντος τοῖς ἰδίοις δεσπόταις τοῖς αὐτοῖς πανευφήμοις προσώποις τὴν ἀγωγὴν καὶ ἐνοχὴν Αὐρήλιος Φοιβάμμων υἱὸς Παπνουθίου μητρὸς Μαύρας ὁρμώμενος ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Νέου τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ διαφέροντος τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὑπερφυείᾳ ἐναπόγραφος αὐτῆς γεωργὸς χαίρειν. χρείας καὶ νῦν γεναμένης τὴν ὑπ’ ἐμὲ γεουχικὴν μηχανὴν καλουμένην Τῶν Χωρίων ἀντλοῦσαν εἰς τὰ αὐτὰ χωρία ἄξονος ἑνός, ἀνελθὼν ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως ἠξίωσα τὴν ὑμῶν ὑπερφύειαν ὥστε κελεῦσαί μοι τὸν ἄξονα παρασχεθῆναι, καὶ εὐθέως ἡ ὑμῶν ὑπερφύεια πρόνοιαν ποιουμένη τῆς συστάσεως τῶν ἑαυτῆς πραγμάτων τοῦτον ἀγορασθέντα παρ’ ἐμοῦ ἐν ἀγροῖς καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τιμὴν κατελογίσατό μοι ἐν τοῖς πιττακίοις καινὸν ἐπιτήδειον ἀντλητικὸν εὐάρεστον, ἐδεξάμην εἰς ἀναπλήρωσιν πάντων τῶν μηχανικῶν ὀργάνων ἐν τῇ σήμερον ἡμέρᾳ ἥτις ἐστὶν Τῦβι δευτέρα τῆς παρούσης ἕκτης ἰνδικτίωνος, ὑδροπαροχίας καρπῶν τῆς σὺν Θεῷ ἑβδόμης ἐπινεμήσεως, τὸν δὲ αὐτὸν ἄξονα ἐξυπηρετούμενον τοῖς ποτισμοῖςἐπὶ πενταετῆ χρόνον, τὸν δὲ παλαιὸν δοθέντα τῷ θυρωρῷ, καὶ πρὸς ἀπόδειξιν τῆς ὑποδοχῆς ταύτην πεποίημαι τὴν χειρογραφίαν, ἥτις κυρία οὖσα ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. † Αὐρήλιος Φοιβάμμων υἱὸς Παπνουθίου στοιχεῖ μοι αὕτη ἡ χειρογραφία ὡς πρόκειται. Παπνούθιος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀγραμμάτου ὄντος. † † γίνεται ἄξων εἷς μόνος. ††† ☧ di emu Papnutiu eteliothe. [v] † χειρογραφία Φοιβάμμωνος υἱοῦ Παπνουθίου ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Νέου ὑποδοχῆς ἄξονος ἑνός.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Tiberius Mauricius, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 6, and in the consulship of the same our most pious master year 5, Tybi 2, sixth indiction. To the most magnificent heirs of Apion of glorious memory, former first patrician, landowners also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own masters, the same most renowned persons, the right of action and obligation, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Papnouthios, his mother being Maura, originating from the hamlet of Neon of the Oxyrhynchite nome, belonging to your magnificence, its registered farmer, greetings. Since there was now again need of one axle for the estate water-wheel under my charge called 'Of the Fields', which irrigates those same fields, I went up to the city and asked your magnificence to order that the axle be provided to me; and at once your magnificence, taking care for the maintenance of its affairs, had it bought by me in the country and credited its price to me in the accounts. I have received a new axle, suitable for irrigating and satisfactory, for the completion of all the machine's parts, on this present day, which is Tybi 2 of the present sixth indiction, for the water supply for the crops of the seventh indiction, with God's help; the same axle is to serve the irrigation for a period of five years, and the old one has been given to the doorkeeper. And as proof of receipt I have made this written acknowledgement, which is valid, written in a single copy, and in answer to the formal question I have agreed. † I, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Papnouthios: this acknowledgement is satisfactory to me as set out above. I, Papnouthios, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. † † Total: one axle only. ††† ☧ Completed through me, Papnouthios. [verso] † Acknowledgement of Phoibammon son of Papnouthios from the hamlet of Neon, of receipt of one axle.

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