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Oath of komarchs to guard crops on the threshing floors until taxes are paid TM 21798Oxyrhynchos13. Juni 292

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A sworn declaration by Aurelius Papontos and Aurelius Horos, village heads (komarchs) of Isiou Panga, to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome. They swear by the emperors' Fortune to guard the harvested crops on the threshing floors until every farmer has paid his grain taxes in full to the dekaprotoi. Written at Oxyrhynchus in June 292.

In English machine translation

To Claudius Dioskourides also called Chaireas, former strategos of the Diopolite nome, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Papontos son of Theon and Horos son of Archelaos, both komarchs of the village of Isiou Panga for the present 8th and 7th year. Since you have instructed us to keep the crops on the threshing floors in our fields in safe custody until the dekaprotoi have received in full each man's public dues, we accordingly agree, swearing by the Fortune of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti, to keep watch and to allow no one to touch them until each has paid in full the measure still owed to the dekaprotoi of the districts, the measurings being carried out so that no complaint may follow; otherwise may we be liable to the oath. Year 8 and 7 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti, Pauni 19. […]

The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting taxes in kind; the double regnal year (8th and 7th) reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian and Maximian. The ends of the document, probably signatures, are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affidavit of Comarchs). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 13. Juni 292 · Oxyrhynchos

Κλαυδίῳ Διοσκουρίδῃ τῷ καὶ Χαιρέᾳ γενομένῳ στρατηγῷ Διοπολίτου στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Παποντῶτος Θέωνος καὶ Ὥρου Ἀρχελάου ἀμφοτέρων κωμαρχῶν κώμης Ἰσίου Παγγᾶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους. ἐπιθεμένου σου ἡμῖν ὥστε ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ ἔχειν τοὺς καρποὺς ἐν ταῖς ἁλωνίαις ἔν…