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Declaration of a wheat debt owed to an estate confiscated by the treasury TM 16889Oxyrhynchos13. Juni 225

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A declaration to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome by Aurelia Apollonarion, acting through a secretary, acknowledging that she owes 600 artabas of wheat to the estate of Claudia Isidora also called Apia, which had been confiscated by the treasury. She had borrowed the wheat earlier in the year and was to repay it from the harvest in Epeiph. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 225.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius […], strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelia Apollonarion, daughter of Zoilos, former gymnasiarch of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, her mother being […], acting without a guardian by the right of children according to the customs of the Romans, through Aurelius Horion, secretary. Having learned from a letter of his excellency Papirius Sabinus, delivered to you here today, that the property of Claudia Isidora also called Apia has passed to the treasury, I make a declaration, stating that I myself […] owe to the account of Isidora, according to a ⟦double⟧ handwritten contract of the current year, ⟦Mecheir⟧ Phamenoth […], 600 artabas of wheat by the measure of the estate's surveyor (?), which I received on condition of repaying the same 600 from the crops of the same current year in the month of Epeiph. And I ask that this declaration of mine be made known to those whom it concerns. Year 4, Pauni 19. Aurelia Apollonarion, daughter of Zoilos, through me, Aurelius Horion, secretary.

Claudia Isidora also called Apia was a wealthy Oxyrhynchite landowner whose estate passed to the imperial treasury (tameion); debtors were required to declare what they owed it. The 'right of children' (ius liberorum) allowed a woman with enough children to act without a male guardian.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of Debt to an Escheated Estate). 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.31.2566coli

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 13. Juni 225 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ[…]στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀπολλωναρίου Ζωίλου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως μητρὸς …………[…]χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματιζούσης κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη τέκνων δικαίῳ διὰ Αὐρηλίου Ὡρίωνος γραμματέως. ἐξ ἐπιστολῆς Παπειρίου Σαβείνου τοῦ κρατίστου σήμερόν σοι ἐνταῦθα …

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p.oxy.31.2566colii

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 13. Juni 225 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Αι…[…]λω στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτου[…] παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀπολλωναρίου θυγατρὸς Ζωΐλου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματιζούσης κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη τέκνων δικαίῳ μετὰ συνεστῶτος Αὐρηλίου Διογένους Σαραπάμμωνος ἐξηγητεύσαντος βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως διʼ…