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p.oxy.41.2969 323Oxyrhynchos
Undertaking to Tend a Persea Tree via HGV-meta
Sworn undertaking to tend a persea tree on a public street. A sworn undertaking addressed to Dioskourides, the city's financial official (logistes) of Oxyrhynchus, by a coppersmith, a linen-weaver and a church reader, promising to water and guard a persea tree planted by official order outside their houses on a public street. It dates to AD 323. machine translation
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TM 16533.
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- Undertaking to Tend a Persea Tree HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos323
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[Fr1]
τοῖς ἀποδειχθησομένοις ὑπάτοις τὸ γ.
Διοσκουρίδῃ λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχείτου
παρὰ Τιμοθέου χαλκοτύπου καὶ Εὐπορίωνος
ὀθονιακοῦ καὶ Μώρου ἀναγνώστου,
πάντων ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, καὶ τῶν
μετόχων. ὁμολογοῦμεν ὀμνύντες
τὸν σεβάσμιον θεῖον ὅρκον τῶν δεσποτῶν
ἡμῶν ἀνικήτων βασιλέων πᾶσαν ἐπιμέλειαν
καὶ ὑπηρεσίαν καὶ τοὺς συνήθεις ποτισμοὺς ἀδιαλείπτως ἐπάναγκες ποιήσασθαι τῆς ἐκ μείζονος προστάξεως
νεωστὶ κατατεθείσης περσίας πρὸς τοῖς
ἡμετέροις οἴκοις ἐπὶ τῆς δημοσίας πλατείαςπρὸς τὸ ζωογονεῖν καὶ εὐθαλεῖν διὰ
παντός, ἔτι τε καὶ τὴν τήρησιν καὶ παραφυλακὴν τῆς περιβολῆς τῆς ἀνοικοδομῆς τῆς αὐτῆς περσίας ποιήσασθαι
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[Fr2]
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Τιμόθεος ἐπιδεδώκαμεν.[…]
Ἀπίωνος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα
μὴ εἰδότος Εὐπορίων ἐπιδεδώκαμεν. Μῶρος ἐπιδεδώκαμεν.
Ὡρίων ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ βεβλαμμένου τὰς ὄψεις.
οἰκόπεδα Μώρου ἀναγνώστου. ἡ περσία ιζ[…]Translations (1)
[Fragment 1]
In the consulship to be designated for the 3rd time.
To Dioskourides, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Timotheos, coppersmith, and Euporion, linen-weaver, and Moros, reader, all from the same city, and their partners. We acknowledge, swearing the august divine oath of our masters the unconquered emperors, that we will of necessity give all care and service and the customary waterings without interruption to the persea tree recently planted by higher order beside our houses on the public street, so that it may live and flourish continually, and further that we will keep guard and watch over the enclosure of the rebuilding of the same persea tree […]
[…]
[Fragment 2]
[…]
I, Timotheos, have submitted (this). […] son of Apion, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters. I, Euporion, have submitted (this). I, Moros, have submitted (this). I, Horion, wrote on his behalf, as his eyes are impaired.
House plots of Moros, reader. The persea tree, 17 […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 16533 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;41;2969 tier-1
- HGV-Text 16533 tier-1
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