Undertaking with oath
The oath is sworn by five presbuteroi d�mosi�n ge�rg�n of the village of Ares. The undertaking concerned is the prevention of the inundation of the drumoi.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11183
Oath of village elders not to let water into the thicket TM 11183OxyrhynchaA.D. 53
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A sworn undertaking by five elders of the public farmers of the village of Areos in the Arsinoite nome, addressed to the officials in charge of the nome's sowing. They swear by the emperor Claudius not to let anyone, themselves included, release water into the thicket land. It dates to AD 54.
In English machine translation
Panestikous son of Peteës, the leader, and Herakles son of Herakles(?) and Harpaesis son of Panouris and Petesouchos son of Onnophris and Panouris son of Panouris, the five elders of the public farmers of the village of Areos, to those appointed for the sowing of the nome:
We swear by Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator that we will truly not allow anyone to let water down into the thicket, nor will we ourselves let it down. If we keep our oath, may it be well with us; if we break it, the opposite.
Year 15 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phaophi […]
The drymos was uncultivated scrub or woodland, apparently to be protected from irrigation water. One record gives AD 53 and Oxyrhyncha instead of AD 54 and Areos Kome; year 15 of Claudius, Phaophi, falls in autumn AD 54.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Engagement sous serment d’empêcher l’inondation des δρυμοί). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.fouad.1.19
Πανεστικοῦς Πετεῆτος ἡγούμενος καὶ Ἡρακλῆς Ἡρακλήου καὶ Ἁρπαῆσις Πανούριος καὶ Πετεσοῦχος Ὀννώφριος καὶ Πανοῦρις Πανούριος οἱ πέντε πρεσβύτεροι δημοσίων γεωργῶν Ἄρεως κώμης τοῖς προκεχειρισμένοις τὴν τοῦ νομοῦ κατασποράν· ὀμνύομεν Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Καίσαρα Σεβαστὸν Γερμανικὸν Αὐτ…