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Oath to remain in Hermopolis until accounting for grain-levy collection TM 17503Hermopolis (?)25. Dez. 221

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A sworn declaration by Aurelius Hierax also called Melas, an Alexandrian landowner at Sesphtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the strategos of the Hermopolite nome. Having helped collect the grain levy there, he swears by the emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander to stay in Hermopolis until he has fully accounted for his collection. Dated 25 December 221.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Hierax also called Melas […] and however I am styled, Alexandrian, landowner in the Oxyrhynchite nome in the village of Sesphtha, to Aurelius Sarapion also called Apollonianus, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, greeting. Since I assisted in collecting the grain levy of the nome under your charge, under Apollonios your hegoumenos, I swear by the fortune of our lords the Emperors Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, that I will remain with you and not leave Hermopolis until I present to you my entire collection, having carried it out soundly and with all good faith; otherwise may I be liable to the oath. I, Aurelius Hierax also called Melas, the aforementioned, wrote the body in my own hand and swore the oath. Year 5 of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, Choiak 29.

The emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is Elagabalus, here with his co-ruler Severus Alexander as Caesar. The hegoumenos was a subordinate official or assistant of the strategos.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Dez. 221 · Hermopolis (?)

Αὐρήλιος Ἱέραξ ὁ καὶ Μέλας[…]…[…]…[…] καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω, Ἀλεξανδρεὺς γεουχῶν ἐν Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ νομῷ ἐν κώμῃ Σέσφθα, Αὐρηλίῳ Σαραπίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνιανῷ στρατηγῷ Ἑρμοπολείτου χαίρειν. ἐπεὶ ἐβοήθησα πράξας τὸ σιτικὸν τοῦ νομοῦ τοῦ ὑπὸ σοὶ ὑπὸ Ἀπολλώνιον τὸν ἡγούμενόν σου, ὀμνύω τὴν τῶ…