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Undertaking by councillors to ship wheat to Alexandria TM 17896Oxyrhynchos

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A sworn undertaking by town councillors of Oxyrhynchos, serving as superintendents of the grain for Alexandria, addressed to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome. They declare that they have received wheat of the new 11th indiction and loaded it onto a boat, and undertake to carry the cargo down to Alexandria. It is dated by the consulship of Lupicinus and Jovinus (AD 367).

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavii Lupicinus and Jovinus, the most illustrious, to […], strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii […]nios and Hesychios son of Julianus and […] and Dionysios […], all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, superintendents of the grain for Alexandria, through us who sign below. We acknowledge, swearing the revered divine oath of our masters Valentinian and Valens, eternal Augusti, that we have received from the persons registered below and loaded onto the boat listed below, on account of the produce of the fortunate new 11th indiction, new wheat, clean, unmixed with barley, undamaged by water and free of every fault, by the public measure, by the prescribed measurement, in total […] artabas […] carried […] of wheat […] and […] […] and to carry the cargo down to the most illustrious Alexandria […] […]

The date is inferred from the consuls Lupicinus and Jovinus, who held office in AD 367. The total quantity of wheat and the names of the suppliers are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Undertaking by Town Councillors to Transport Wheat to Alexandria). 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 · Oxyrhynchos

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