Promise of attendance
A declaration on oath that the writer would appear before the strategus in connection with a reckoning of receipts from taxation.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21764
Oath to appear before the strategos at the reckoning of taxes TM 21764OxyrhynchusA.D. 45
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A sworn undertaking by a man of Oxyrhynchus from the Hippodromos quarter, addressed to Secundus, tax collector of that quarter, promising to appear before the strategos Apollonios at the next reckoning of public tax receipts. He swears by the emperor Claudius not to take refuge in any sanctuary or place of asylum. Dated year 6 of Claudius (AD 45).
In English machine translation
[…]esios, of those from Oxyrhynchus [city], […] of the Hippodromos quarter, to Secundus, [collector of] public taxes of the same quarter.
I swear by Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator that I will present myself to the strategos Apollonios at the next reckoning of the public dues, being outside any temple, altar, sacred precinct, place of asylum or any protection. If I keep my oath may it be well with me, if I swear falsely the opposite.
Year 6 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Neos Sebastos, 9th.
Neos Sebastos was an honorific month name corresponding to Hathyr (October/November). The oath excludes refuge in temples and places of asylum, which could otherwise shelter a debtor from officials.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Promise of Attendance). 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.10.1258
[…]ήσιος τῶν ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως[…]Ἱπποδρόμου Σεκούνδωι πράκτορι δημοσίων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφόδου. ὀμνύω Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Καίσαρα Σεβαστὸν Γερμανικὸν Αὐτοκράτορα ἔσεσθαί με ἐμφανῆ τῶι στρατηγῶι Ἀπολλωνίωι ἐπὶ τῆς ἔγγιστα ἀριθμήσεως τῶν δημοσίων ὄντα ἐκτὸς ἱεροῦ βωμοῦ τεμένους παντὸς …