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Oath of an overseer of animals on receipt of meat for a visit and for troops at Babylon TM 21804Oxyrhynchos13. Jan. 325

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A sworn declaration by Aurelius Herakles, a councillor of Oxyrhynchus serving as overseer of animals (meat supplies), to Flavius Sarapion, a centurion on the staff of the catholicus. He swears he has received 24,235 pounds from the 12th indiction's produce, partly for an expected official visit and partly for soldiers stationed at Babylon (Old Cairo), and undertakes to deliver and distribute it on command. It is dated 13 January 325 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of our masters Crispus and Constantine, the most illustrious Caesars, for the 3rd time. To Flavius Sarapion, centurion of the staff of the most eminent catholicus, from Aurelius Herakles son of Koilakios, councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, overseer of meat (?). I swear by the revered divine oath of our Emperor and Caesars that I have received from the produce of the 12th indiction 24,235 pounds, for the forthcoming visit 10,000 pounds, and for the provisioning of the most noble soldiers stationed at Babylon under Severianus the praepositus 14,235 pounds, together with the expenses, and that I will bring them down and make the distribution of them whenever I am ordered, complete in number, and will produce the documents of delivery, so that I may be blamed in nothing; otherwise may I be liable to the divine oath. In the aforesaid consulship, Tybi 18.

The commodity is not named; the overseer's title 'epimeletes of animals' suggests meat, measured in Roman pounds (litrai). The 'forthcoming visit' probably refers to an imperial or high official's arrival requiring supplies.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration concerning Commissariat). 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. Jan. 325 · Oxyrhynchos

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κρίσπου καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων τὸ γ. Φλαουίωι Σαραπίωνι ἑκατοντάρχῳ τάξεως τοῦ διασημοτάτου καθολικοῦ παρʼ Αὐρηλίου Ἡρακλέους Κοιλακίου βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἐπιμελητοῦ ζῴων ὀμνύω τὸν σεβά…