Letter offering surety
Cursive, written along the fibres. P.Cair.Preis.13 is its duplicate, but written in a different hand.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17710
Surety for a councillor appointed to transport annona wine for soldiers in the Thebaid TM 17710Hermoupolis4th c. AD
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A sworn surety declaration addressed to the designated prytanis of Hermopolis, in which the councillor Aurelius Proklinos guarantees that his fellow councillor Aurelius Olympios, appointed by the council to oversee the transport of annona wine for the soldiers in the Thebaid, will carry out the task and produce his receipts. It dates to the month Phaophi in 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 Proklinos son of Achilleus, councillor of the same city. I acknowledge, swearing the divine and venerable oath, that I have voluntarily and of my own free will stood surety for Aurelius Olympios son of Hermes, councillor of the same city, appointed by the […] of the council for the supervision and transport of the annona wine for the most noble soldiers stationed in the Thebaid, whom I will also produce to fulfil the supervision of the wine and of its delivery entrusted to him and to submit his receipts. If he defaults, I myself will bear the responsibility on his behalf, or may I be liable to the divine oath and to the danger concerning it, and in answer to the formal question I gave my assent. In the aforesaid consulship, Phaophi […].
(2nd hand?) I, Aurelius Proklinos son of Achilleus, stand surety and will bear responsibility as aforesaid.
This is a duplicate copy of the same surety, written in a different hand. The annona was the state levy in kind used to supply the army.
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.13rpdupl
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α. Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀδελφίῳ Ἀδελφίου ἀποδεδειγμένῳ πρυτάνει Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως Αὐρήλιος Προκλῖνος Ἀχιλλέως βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὸν θεῖον καὶ σεβάσμιον ὅρκον ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐ…