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p.oxy.40.2924
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Public notice of outgoing officials about unclaimed grain-distribution tablets. A public notice from Septimius Horion alias Diogenes, a former gymnasiarch, Appianus alias Severus and their fellow magistrates, who had run the grain distribution at Oxyrhynchus. Now that their term is over and successors have been appointed by the council, they remind holders of distribution tablets who have not yet collected their wheat to present them and receive it. The text dates to the 3rd century AD. machine translation
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- Public Notice? HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
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Transcription
παρὰ Σεπτιμίου Ὡρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Διογένους γυμνασιαρχήσαντος
καὶ Ἀππιανοῦ τοῦ καὶ Σεουήρου καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτοῖς
ἀρχόντων. διʼ αὐτῶν ἡμῶν τὸν χρόνον τῆς διαδόσεως ἀποπεπληρωκότων καὶ ἑτέρων προχειρισθέντων
ἐν τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ, ἀναγκαῖον ἐνομίσαμεν ὑπομνῆσαι τοὺς παρʼ ἡμῶν τάβλας μὲν ἐσχηκότας ἐν τῇ διαδόσει μηδέπω δὲ τὸν σῖτον εἰληφότας καὶ ἂν νῦν ταύτας π[…]…[…]…α…[…]… ἡμῖν λημψομένους τὸν πυρὸν ο…[…]
[…]νεται πρὸς τὸ μὴ α…[…]
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[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
From Septimius Horion also called Diogenes, former gymnasiarch, and Appianus also called Severus, and their fellow magistrates.
Since we ourselves have completed the term of the distribution and others have been appointed in the most excellent council, we have thought it necessary to remind those who have received tablets from us in the distribution but have not yet received the grain, that if they now [present (?)] these […] to us, they will receive the wheat […]
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- TM-Text 45237 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;40;2924 tier-1
- HGV-Text 45237 tier-1
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