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Acknowledgement of receipt of a boat with its oars TM 17578Oxyrhynchosca. 265

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The end of a document in which Aurelius Pa…r…, son of Eutyches, acknowledges receiving a light boat together with its oars. It is dated by an emperor's regnal year in the month Epeiph, and a literate man, Aurelius Apollonios, signed for him because he could not write. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 265.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] […] Germanicus Maximus, Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph […] I, Aurelius Pa…r… […], son of Eutyches, have received the light boat with its oars, and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Apollonios son of Apollonios, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.

A paktōn was a light boat, often a skiff or small river craft. The emperor's name is lost, and only his titles survive.

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 Return of Boat). 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.57.3913

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 265 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] Γερμανικοῦ Μεγίστου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Ἐπεὶφ […]…[…] Αὐρήλιος Πα…ρ…[…] Εὐτύχου παρείληφα τὸν πάκτωνα σὺν ταῖς κώπαις καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. Αὐρήλιος Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίου ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα.