One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22579
Mandate appointing a gravedigger as representative before an arbitrator TM 22579Fundort: Kysis (= Dush) (Oasis Magna, Ägypten); Schreibort: Hibis (= El-Hiba) (Oasis Magna, Ägypten)ca. 300
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Fragmentary mandate, around AD 300, in which Aurelia, daughter of Syros and a resident of Hibis in the Great Oasis, appoints a gravedigger (necrotaphos) of the same city to represent her while she travels to the Upper country. He is to act for her before the president of the city of Mothis, where an arbitrator is to be chosen by lot in accordance with an official subscription.
In English machine translation
[Aurelia] […]ia, daughter of Syros son of Pete[chon] […] of the city of the Hibites,
to [Aurelius] […], gravedigger of the same [city], greetings. I acknowledge that I have appointed [you], since I am going abroad to the Upper [country], also to fill my place before the president of the city of the Mothites, for an arbitrator to be appointed by lot in accordance with the subscription issued [by] […]
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The text belongs to the archive of the Kysis gravediggers (necrotaphoi). A 'subscription' (hypographe) here is an official ruling written beneath a petition.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mandate for Representation at a Hearing). 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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Αὐρηλία […]ία Σύρου τοῦ Πετεχῶντος […]…ρ … […] τῆς Ἱβιτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ […] νεκροτάφῳ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἀποσυστῆσαί σε ἀποδημῆσαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἄνω χώραν καὶ τὴν χώραν μου ἀποπληρῶσαι ἐπὶ τοῦ προέδρου τῆς Μωθιτῶν πόλεως κληρωθῆναι διαιτητὴν ἀκολούθως τῇ ἐκδοθείσῃ ὑπὸ […