One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19981
Oath of a receiver of compulsorily purchased wheat for shipment TM 19981unbekannt138 - 161
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Oath of a man appointed from among the local notables as receiver of wheat bought by compulsory purchase and loaded for shipment. He swears by the fortune of Emperor Antoninus Pius to perform the duty faithfully, keep the escorting crew with the cargo until it is weighed in the city, and deliver it intact at his own risk.
In English machine translation
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[…] receiver, from among the men of standing, for the wheat being loaded under compulsory purchase, I swear by the fortune of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius that I will undertake the service faithfully and diligently, and take every care that the escorting shippers remain until the weighing in the city, and that I will deliver the cargo safe and untampered with, at my own risk; otherwise may I be liable to the oath.
Apoll[…], I have signed.
Synagorastikos wheat was grain the state bought compulsorily from producers, here loaded for transport. The epiplooi were escorts who travelled with grain cargoes to guard against theft or adulteration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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