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Contract of a systates with a courier of the express post TM 22519Oxyrhynchos10. Dez. 412

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A contract from Oxyrhynchus in which a systates, the official who assigned compulsory public services for a city tribe, records that Aurelius Demetrios son of Parion has undertaken a year-long liturgy as a courier of the express post. The opening survives, dated 10 December 412; the payment terms are lost.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Honorius for the 9th time and Theodosius for the 5th time, Choiak 14. […] from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, systates of the tribe now serving in liturgy, of Dromos Gymnasiou and other quarters, to Aurelius Demetrios son of Parion, from the same city, of the same tribe, greetings. I acknowledge that I have made an agreement […] that you have undertaken the year-long liturgy entrusted to you by me, in the position of haliadites (?), that is, letter-carrier of the express post, for the period from the new moon of Thoth to the fifth intercalary day of Mesore, including the fifth itself, of the current year 89/58, of the present eleventh indiction […] acknowledge (?) […] to have received […] [… lines lost …]

The years 89 and 58 are the Oxyrhynchite era years used locally. The word haliadites is obscure; the text glosses it as a letter-carrier of the fast post (cursus velox).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of a Systates). 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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p.oxy.55.3796

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Dez. 412 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Ὁνωρίου τὸ θ καὶ Θεοδοσίου τὸ ε, Χοίακ ιδ. […] ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως, συστάτης τῆς νυνὶ λειτουργούσης φυλῆς Δρόμου Γυμνασίου καὶ ἄλλων ἀμφόδων, Αὐρηλίῳ Δημητρίῳ υἱῷ Παρίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτης πόλεως τῆς αὐτῆς φυλῆς χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ συνηλλαχέναι[…]…[…]……