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Opening of a sworn declaration addressed by Aurelius Hierax to Aurelius Adelphios, gymnasiarch, councillor and prytanis of Hermopolis. Only the dating clause, address and the start of the imperial oath survive; the content of the declaration is lost.
The consular date of Licinius and his son Licinius Caesar was used in the East in 321. The prytanis was the presiding officer of the city council.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang einer eidesstattlichen Erklärung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Λικινίου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Λικινίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ β […] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀδελφίῳ Ἀδελφίου γυμνασιάρχῳ βουλευτῇ ἐνάρχῳ πρυτάνει Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἱέρακος …[…] ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὴν θείαν καὶ οὐράνιον τύχην τῶν πάντα νικώντων δ…
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