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Undertaking to produce clothing-delivery receipts at Alexandria TM 22368Lykopolis8. Okt. 371

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A written undertaking from Aurelius Horion of Lykopolis to Flavius Isidoros, an official of the Thebaid governor's staff. Ordered to travel to Alexandria with clothing received for distribution, Horion acknowledges receiving the delivery receipts of two supervisors from Panopolis and promises to produce either the men or the receipts before the court. Dated 8 October 371.

In English machine translation

[…] […] indiction, of Lykopolis, to Flavius Isidoros, officialis of the staff of the governorship of the Thebaid, greetings. Since together with you we have been ordered by the authority of my lord the most illustrious governor Flavius Antonius Domitianus to go down to most illustrious Alexandria with the clothing which we received for distribution, accordingly I acknowledge: I have received from Apollonios son of Besas, epimeletes of Panopolis, and from Mikkalos son of Theodoros their receipts (entagia) for their clothing, which they have already distributed at the same city of the Alexandrians, and I will keep them with me as far as Alexandria, either to hand over to you the men themselves or the receipts themselves for the defence before the court. This note of hand I have issued to you for security, and having been asked the formal question I have agreed. In the consulship of our master Gratian the eternal Augustus for the 2nd time and of Probus the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, Phaophi 10. I, Aurelius Horion son of Julianus, priest (?), issued the note of hand as stated above.

The clothing was a state levy (vestis) for the army or administration; entagia are official delivery receipts. The abbreviation 'pr(esbyteros)' may mean priest or elder.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Versprechen einer Rechnungsablegung). 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 · 8. Okt. 371 · Lykopolis

[… 1 line lost …] ἰνδικτίονος Λύκων πόλεως Φλαυίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ ὀφφικιαλίῳ τάξεως η῾γεμονίας Θηβαίδος χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ ἅμα σοι προσετάχθημεν ὑπὸ τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος Φλαυίου Ἀντωνίου Δομιτιανοῦ κατιέναι εἰς τὴν λαμπροτάτην Ἀλεξάνδρειαν μεθʼ ἧς ὑπεδεξάμεθα…