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p.oxy.16.1990 12. Jan. 591Oxyrhynchos

Receipt for an Axle via HGV-meta

Receipt for an axle for an estate irrigation machine. A receipt in which Aurelius Sarmatas, an illiterate registered farmer on the Parthenias estate, acknowledges to Flavia Praeiecta and her son Apion, heirs of the patrician Apion, that he has received a new axle for the estate's irrigation machine, its price having been credited to him. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in January 591. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουΐου Μαυρικίου Νέου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους θ, ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου ἔτους η, Τῦβι ιζ, ἰνδικτίωνος θ. Φλαουΐοις Πραιϊέκτῃ καὶ Ἀπίωνι τῷ αὐτῆς υἱῷ τοῖς ὑπερφυεστάτοις κληρονόμοις τοῦ ἐν εὐκλεεῖ τῇ μνήμῃ Ἀπίωνος γενομένου πατρικίου γεουχοῦσιν καὶ ἐνταῦθα τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει διὰ Μηνᾶ οἰκέτου τοῦ ἐπερωτῶντος καὶ προσπορίζοντος τοῖς ἰδίοις δεσπόταις τοῖς αὐτοῖς πανευφήμοις ἀνδράσιν τὴν ἀγωγὴν καὶ ἐνοχὴν Αὐρήλιος Σαρμάτας υἱὸς Φοιβάμμωνος μητρὸς Ἄννας ὁρμώμενος ἀπὸ κτήματος Παρθενιάδος διαφέροντος τῇ ὑμῶν ὑπερφυείᾳ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ ἐναπόγραφος αὐτῆς γεωργὸς χαίρειν. χρείας καὶ νῦν γεναμένης εἰς τὴν ὑπ’ ἐμὲ γεουχικὴν μηχανὴν καλουμένην ῎Εσωθεν Τοῦ Αὐτοῦ Κτήματος ἀντλοῦσαν εἰς ἄμπελον καὶ ἀρόσιμον γῆν ἄξονος ἑνός, ἀνελθὼν ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως ἠξίωσα τὴν ὑμῶν ὑπερφύειαν διὰ τῶν αὐτῇ προσηκόντων ὥστε κελεῦσαι παρασχεθῆναί μοι τὸν αὐτὸν ἄξονα. καὶ εὐθέως πρόνοιαν ποιουμένη τῆς συστάσεως τῶν αὑτῆς πραγμάτων τοῦτον ἀγορασθέντα παρ’ ἐμοῦ ἐν ἀγροῖς καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τιμὴν λογισθεῖσάν μοι ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἐνταγίοις καινὸν ἐπιτήδειον ἀντλητικὸν εὐάρεστον ἐδεξάμην εἰς ἀναπλήρωσιν πάντων τῶν μηχανικῶν ὀργάνων ἐν τῇ σήμερον ἡμέρᾳ, ἥτις ἐστὶν Τῦβι ἓξ καὶ δεκάτη τῆς παρούσης ἐνάτης ἰνδικτίωνος, ὑδροπαροχίας δὲ καρπῶν τῆς σὺν Θεῷ δεκάτης ἐπινεμήσεως. καὶ πρὸς ἀπόδειξιν τῆς ὑποδοχῆς ταύτην πεποίημαι τὴν χειρογραφίαν, ἥτις κυρία οὖσα ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. † Αὐρήλιος Σαρμάτας ὁ προγεγραμμένος πεποίημαι ταύτην τὴν χειρογραφίαν τοῦ εἰρημένου ἑνὸς ἄξονος ὡς πρόκειται. Ἀναστάσιος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀγραμμάτου ὄντος. † ☧ di emu Anastasiu eteliothe† [v] † χειρογραφία Σαρμάτου υἱοῦ Φοιβάμμωνος ἀπὸ κτήματος Παρθενιάδος ἄξονος ἑνός. †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † In the 9th year of the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Mauricius New Tiberius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, in the 8th year of the consulship of the same most pious master of ours, Tybi 17, indiction 9. To Flavia Praeiecta and Flavius Apion her son, the most magnificent heirs of Apion of glorious memory, the late 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 Sarmatas son of Phoibammon, mother Anna, originating from the estate of Parthenias belonging to your magnificence in the Oxyrhynchite nome, registered farmer of the same, greetings. Since there is now need, at the estate irrigation machine under my charge called "Inside the Same Estate", which waters vineyard and arable land, of one axle, I came up to the city and asked your magnificence through those attached to it to order that the same axle be provided to me. And at once, taking thought for the maintenance of its affairs, (your magnificence had) this purchased by me in the country, and its price credited to me in my receipts; I have received it, new, serviceable for drawing water and satisfactory, for the completion of all the machine's equipment, on this present day, which is Tybi the sixteenth of the present ninth indiction, for the irrigation of the crops of the tenth indiction, God willing. And as proof of receipt I have made this written acknowledgement, which is valid, written in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † I, Aurelius Sarmatas, the aforementioned, have made this written acknowledgement for the said one axle as stated above. I, Anastasios, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. † ☧ Executed through me, Anastasios. † [verso] † Written acknowledgement of Sarmatas son of Phoibammon from the estate of Parthenias, for one axle. †

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