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Sworn promise to appear before the governor's court of the Thebaid TM 22362Thebais372

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A sworn undertaking by Aurelius Theodoros, addressed to two officials of the governor's staff of the Thebaid, promising to appear before the governor Julius Julianus's court and to discharge all obligations of himself and his son Theodoros as tax-collecting kephalaiotai of the 11th indiction. It is dated by the consuls of AD 372.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Isidoros and Flavius Theodoros, officials of the staff of the governorship of the Thebaid, from Aurelius Theodoros […] […] I acknowledge, swearing the divine and venerable oath of our masters Valentinian and Valens and Gratian, the eternal Augusti, that I will present myself together with you at the office and make my appearance before the court in accordance with the order of my lord the most illustrious governor Julius Julianus, being one of the kephalaiotai of the 11th indiction, and that I will fulfil every duty both of myself and of my son Theodoros; otherwise I shall be liable to the divine oath and to the danger attached to it. I, Aurelius Theodoros, the aforementioned, stand surety and have sworn the divine oath and, having been asked the formal question, have given my assent. In the consulship of Modestus and Arintheus, the most illustrious. […]

Kephalaiotai were liturgical officials responsible for collecting levies; the term has no exact English equivalent. The phrase 'from the kephalaiotai' is read here as describing Theodoros's own office.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gestellungsversprechen). 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 · 372 · Thebais

Φλαυίοις Ἰσιδώρῳ καὶ Θεοδώρῳ ὀφφικιαλίοις τάξεως ἡγεμονίας Θηβαίδος παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Θεοδώρου[…] […] ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὸν θεῖον καὶ σεβάσμιον ὅρκον τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ καὶ Οὐάλεντος καὶ Γρατιανοῦ τῶν αἰωνίων Αὐγούστων ἀπαντήσειν ἅμα ὑμῖν εἰς τὴν τάξιν καὶ τὴν ἐμφάνειαν τὴν…