Declaration [November 26, 197 AD]
Declaration on oath; the declaration is made by Anteis Sarapas and refers also to a collector of corn dues
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20393
Declaration on oath by Anteis son of Sarapas, with identification by a grain collector TM 20393Oxyrhynchos197 CE
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End of a declaration on oath from Oxyrhynchus, dated 26 November 197 AD, made by Anteis son of Sarapas. The main text is lost; only the dating formula, the declarant's name and an identification by Paulinus, collector of grain dues, acting through his assistant Dionysios, survive.
In English machine translation
[… 14 lines lost …]
Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus and of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar, designated Imperator, Hathyr 30.
Anteis son of Sarapas.
I, Paulinus, collector of grain dues, […] through Dionysios, assistant, acknowledge (him).
The verb 'I acknowledge' (gnorizo) is the standard formula by which a third party certifies that he knows the declarant. The body of the declaration, about 14 lines, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declarations on oath). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.6.976
[… 14 lines lost …] ἔτους ϛ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ Ἀδιαβηνικοῦ καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος ἀποδεδειγμένου Αὐτοκράτορος Ἁθὺρ λ Ἀντεῖς Σαραπᾶτος Παυλεῖνος πράκτωρ σιτικῶν …λ διὰ Διονυσίου βοηθοῦ γνωρίζω