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Oath to escort two debtors to the catholicus in Alexandria TM 16006Oxyrhynchos332

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A sworn undertaking addressed to the city officials and the strategos of Oxyrhynchus by Aurelius Sarapiakos, who promises to escort two debtors to Alexandria, present them to the office of the catholicus Flavius Nemesianus, and bring back proof of their delivery. His surety is Aurelius Gounthos, probably his brother.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Papius Pacatianus, the most illustrious prefect, and Mecilius Hilarianus, the most illustrious […] To Flavius Hermeias, logistes, and to the Aurelii Achillion, ekdikos, […] and Ptolemaios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Sarapiakos son of Thonis, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, […]. I acknowledge, swearing the august divine oath of our masters the Emperor and the Caesars, that I have taken charge of the two debtors registered below, whom I shall bring down to most illustrious Alexandria and present to the office of the most eminent catholicus Flavius Nemesianus, and that I shall bring back the documents of presentation; otherwise may I be liable to the divine oath. And I have provided as surety for my bringing (them) Aurelius Gounthos son of Thonis, from […], who is present and consents […] […]

The catholicus was the chief financial official of the diocese, so the debtors were probably owed to the treasury. The list of the two debtors and the end of the document are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Undertaking on Oath). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.43.3127

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 332 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Παπίου Πακατιανοῦ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἐπάρχου καὶ Μεκιλίου Ἱλαριανοῦ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου[…] Φλαουίῳ Ἑρμείᾳ λογιστῇ καὶ Αὐρηλίοις Ἀχιλλίωνι ἐκδίκῳ […] καὶ Πτολεμαίῳ στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Ἀὐρηλίου Σαραπιακοῦ Θωνίου ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως […]……ου. ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὸν σεβάσμιο…