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p.oxy.17.2120 25. Dez. 221Hermopolis (?)
Declaration on Oath via HGV-meta
Oath to remain in Hermopolis until accounting for grain-levy collection. A sworn declaration by Aurelius Hierax also called Melas, an Alexandrian landowner at Sesphtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the strategos of the Hermopolite nome. Having helped collect the grain levy there, he swears by the emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander to stay in Hermopolis until he has fully accounted for his collection. Dated 25 December 221. machine translation
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- Declaration on Oath HGV-meta Hermopolis (?)25. Dez. 221
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· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Αὐρήλιος Ἱέραξ ὁ καὶ Μέλας[…]…[…]…[…] καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω, Ἀλεξανδρεὺς
γεουχῶν ἐν Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ νομῷ ἐν κώμῃ Σέσφθα,
Αὐρηλίῳ Σαραπίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνιανῷ στρατηγῷ Ἑρμοπολείτου χαίρειν.
ἐπεὶ ἐβοήθησα πράξας τὸ σιτικὸν τοῦ νομοῦ τοῦ ὑπὸ σοὶ ὑπὸ Ἀπολλώνιον τὸν
ἡγούμενόν σου, ὀμνύω τὴν τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Αὐτοκρατόρων Καίσαρος Μάρκου
Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Καίσαρος
Σεβαστῶν τύχην παραμεῖναί σοι καὶ μὴ ἀποστῆναι τῆς Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως ἔστʼ ἂν πᾶσάν
μου τὴν πρᾶξιν παραστήσω σοι ὑγιῶς καὶ μετὰ πάσης πίστεως διαπραξάμενος, ἢ ἔνοχος εἴην τῷ ὅρκῳ. Αὐρήλιος Ἱέραξ ὁ καὶ Μέλας ὁ προγεγραμμένος τὸ σῶμα ἰδιόγραφον
ἔγραψα καὶ ὤμοσα τὸν ὅρκον. ἔτους ε Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου
Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶν,
Χοίακ κθ.Translations (1)
Aurelius Hierax also called Melas […] and however I am styled, Alexandrian, landowner in the Oxyrhynchite nome in the village of Sesphtha,
to Aurelius Sarapion also called Apollonianus, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, greeting.
Since I assisted in collecting the grain levy of the nome under your charge, under Apollonios your hegoumenos, I swear by the fortune of our lords the Emperors Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, that I will remain with you and not leave Hermopolis until I present to you my entire collection, having carried it out soundly and with all good faith; otherwise may I be liable to the oath.
I, Aurelius Hierax also called Melas, the aforementioned, wrote the body in my own hand and swore the oath.
Year 5 of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, Choiak 29.
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- TM-Text 17503 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;17;2120 tier-1
- HGV-Text 17503 tier-1
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