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Agreement for a substitute in the guardianship of the Hellenic Sarapeum TM 21058Oxyrhynchos269 - 270

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A contract from Oxyrhynchus in which Aurelius Silvanus, nominated by the city's phylarch to serve as guard of the Hellenic Sarapeum, arranges with that same phylarch, Dionysios son of Antonius, to perform the duty in his place for the rest of the year in return for an agreed salary, which Dionysios acknowledges receiving.

In English machine translation

Mutually agree with one another the Aurelii, Silvanus, styled as son of his mother Isidora, from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, nominated by the phylarch of the city of the present year 20 to the guardianship of the Hellenic Sarapeum in the same city, and the nominating phylarch Dionysios son of Antonius, from the same city: Silvanus, that he has contracted with Dionysios for the aforesaid guardianship from now until (?) […] of the epagomenal days […] of the same present year, on condition that he (Dionysios) attend […] without interruption, so that Silvanus be untroubled, unmolested and free from loss in respect of all matters pertaining to the same guardianship; and accordingly that Dionysios has received the agreed salary for the time to be spent […] Dionysios at the […] which they do […] declared […] so much […] [… lines lost …]

The phylax-ship (phylakrisia) of the temple was a compulsory liturgy; here the nominee pays the nominating official himself to carry it out. The year 20 is presumably the regnal year of Gallienus, matching AD 269-270 in Egyptian reckoning.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract between Officials). 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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p.harr.1.64

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 269 - 270 · Oxyrhynchos

ὁμολογοῦσιν ἀλλήλοις Αὐρήλιοι Σιλβανός, χρηματίζων μητρὸς Ἰσιδώρας, ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως, ἀνάδοτος ὑπὸ τοῦ τῆς πόλεως φυλάρχου τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κ ἔτους εἰς φυλακρισίαν τοῦ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει Ἑλληνικοῦ Σαραπείου καὶ ὁ ἀναδοὺς φύλαρχος Διονύσιος Ἀντωνίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως…