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A surety declaration addressed to Isidoros, strategos, in which Ploutarchos of Oxyrhynchus guarantees to produce Asklepiades, who holds in his custody another man, Asklepiades also called Moros, whenever required. It is dated to Mecheir 14 in a year of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The imperial titulature including Germanicus places the date in the 170s AD; the exact regnal year is lost. A guarantee of this kind (surety for appearance) obliged the guarantor to present the person on demand.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gestellungsbürgschaft). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἰσιδώρωι στρατηγῷ. Πλούταρχος Διογένους τοῦ Πλουτάρχου μητρὸς Δημητρ…[…] τῆς καὶ Ἡρωίδος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως ἐγγυῶμαι Ἀσκληπιάδην Ἀσκληπιάδου τοῦ Ἀσκληπιάδου μητρὸς Θαισοῦτος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἔχοντα παρʼ ἑαυτῷ Ἀσκληπιάδην τὸν καὶ Μῶρον …[…] τοῦ Ἀφροδε…
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