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p.oxy.6.888 Oxyrhynchos

Edict of a Praefect and Petition via HGV-meta

Prefect's edict on guardians for orphans, with a petition concerning guardianship. A copy of an edict of the prefect of Egypt Gaius Valerius Pompeianus ordering the responsible officials to appoint guardians for orphans who lack them, posted at Oxyrhynchus in the reign of Diocletian and Maximian. It is followed by the beginning of a petition to the exegetes of Oxyrhynchus from two siblings, children of Origenes and Thaesis, who have taken on the guardianship of their minor nephews and nieces. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

ΓάιοςΟὐαλέριος Πομπηιανὸς ὁ διασημότατος ἔπαρχος Αἰγύπτου λέγει· οἷς ἐὰν μὴ πεποιημένοι ὦσιν κηδεμόνες ὀρφανοῖς οἱ τοῦ χειροτονεῖν κύριοι καθεστῶτες ἐν[…]ποιείσθωσαν τοὺς καθʼ ἡλικίαν κηδεμόνας· οὕτω γὰρ συμβήσεται τῆς προσηκούσης ἐπιμελείας τυγχάνειν, ὡς νῦν γε πολλὰ τῶν ὀρφανικῶν πραγμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς κηδεμόσιν ὄντων ἀναβολῆς τυγχάνειν διὰ τὸ μὴ παρεῖναι τοῖς ὀρφανοῖς ἐπιτρόπους ἤτοι κουράτορας. ἔτους δ καὶ γ ἔτους τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν Φαῶφι[…]προετέθη ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων τῷ αὐτῷ μηνὶ Φαῶφι κζ. …[…]ἐνάρχῳ ἐξηγητῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου καὶ Μικρᾶς Ὀάσεως βουλευτῇ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρύγχιτῶνπόλεως[…] παρὰ[…]καὶ Ἀπολλωνίας ἀμφοτέρων Ὠριγένους μητρὸς Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως. τυχόντες τῆς κηδεμονίας τῶν ἀφηλίκων ἀδελφιδῶν ἡμῶν, τέκνων τῆς μετηλλαχυίας[…]Ὠριγένους ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Gaius Valerius Pompeianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, declares: For those orphans for whom guardians have not been appointed, those who have been made responsible for the appointing shall, in […], appoint the guardians appropriate to their age; for thus it will come about that they obtain the proper care, whereas now many of the orphans' affairs which are in the charge of guardians suffer delay because the orphans have no tutors or curators. Year 4 and year 3 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti, Phaophi […]. Posted in Oxyrhynchus in the same month Phaophi 27. To […], exegetes in office of the Oxyrhynchite and the Small Oasis, councillor of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, […] from […] and Apollonia, both children of Origenes, their mother being Thaesis, from the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Having obtained the guardianship of our nephews and nieces who are minors, children of the late […], daughter (?) of Origenes, from the same city […] […]

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