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Draft of an oath of office addressed to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, Aurelius Ammonios also called Apollonios, by Marcus Aurelius Theon, who had been nominated by the district scribe for the 6th year of Gordian III to a liturgical post he swears to take up immediately. The verso repeats the opening and has magical-looking word experiments.
The text breaks off before naming the office. The verso words resembling the magical name Abrasax appear to be pen trials or doodles.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Oath of Office). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνίῳ στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Θέωνος Δημητρίου μητρὸς Διονυσίας τῆς καὶ Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. εἰσδοθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ νυνὶ τῆς πόλεως ἀμφοδογραμματέως τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ϛ ἔτους ὀμνύω τὴν Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Γορδιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου …
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