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p.oxy.41.2994 321 - 324 (?)Oxyrhynchos

Undertaking to Tend a Persea Tree via HGV-meta

Undertaking to tend and water a newly planted persea tree. Fragment of a written undertaking from Oxyrhynchus in which someone promises, by a higher order issued under the reigning emperors, to tend and water without interruption a persea tree recently planted beside their houses so that it would take root and flourish. It probably dates to AD 321-324. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 32642. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

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 τοῦ […] […] πρὸς τὸ ζωογονεῖν καὶ εὐθαλεῖν, ἔτι[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] of our masters the invincible emperors, (I undertake) of necessity to bestow all care and service and the customary waterings without interruption on the persea tree recently planted, by a higher order, beside our houses at the […] […] so that it may come to life and flourish, further […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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