Letter offering surety
Cursive, written along the fibres. P.Cair.Preis.14 is its duplicate, but written in a different hand.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17709
Surety for a councillor appointed to transport annona wine for soldiers TM 17709Hermoupolis4th c. AD
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A sworn surety declaration addressed to the designated prytanis of Hermopolis, in which the councillor Aurelius Proclinus guarantees that fellow councillor Aurelius Olympios will carry out his council-appointed duty of supervising the transport of annona wine for the soldiers, and promises to answer for him if he fails. It dates to autumn AD 320.
In English machine translation
[In the consulship of our masters Constantine Augustus for the 6th time and Constantine the most] illustrious [Caesar] for the 1st time […]
To Aurelius Adelphios son of Adelphios, designated prytanis of Hermopolis,
from Aurelius Proclinus son of Achilleus, councillor of the same city. I acknowledge, swearing the divine and august oath, that I have of my own free will and choice stood surety for Aurelius Olympios son of Hermes, councillor of the same city, appointed by the […] of the council to the supervision and transport of the annona wine for the most noble soldiers stationed (there), whom I will also produce to fulfil the supervision of the wine entrusted to him and to deliver his receipts for the delivery. But if he defaults, I myself will undertake the accounting on his behalf, or may I be liable to the divine oath and to the danger concerning it.
[And having been asked, I acknowledged. In the aforementioned consulship, Phaophi] […]
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This is a duplicate copy of the same declaration, written in a different hand from its counterpart. The annona was the state levy in kind used to supply the army; the word 'αὐτοτοθια' in the appointing body is garbled and untranslated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gestellungsbürgschaft). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
cpr.17A.12rpdupl
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