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Requests to the council of Hermopolis for funds to heat the Hadrianic baths TM 22955Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)10. Dez. 266

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Application to the city council of Hermopolis by the councillor Aurelius Demetrios alias Eudaimon, overseer of heating for the Hadrianic baths, requesting 1 talent 600 drachmas from city funds, submitted through the prytanis, dated 10 December 266. A second, fragmentary application by Aurelius Didymos to the same council follows.

In English machine translation

[column i] To the most excellent council of Hermopolis the great, ancient, illustrious and most august, through Marcus Aurelius Korellius Alexandros, of equestrian rank, former soldier, gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office of the same city, and however he is styled, from Aurelius Demetrios also called Eudaimon, son of Herminos, councillor of the same city, chosen by the most excellent council for the supervision of the heating of the Hadrianic hot baths of the same city. I request that there be issued from the city account for the same heating, in accordance with what was minuted before the same most excellent council concerning the Hadrianic hot baths in the gymnasium, now also 1 talent and 600 drachmas of silver, total 1 talent 600 drachmas of silver, of which I shall submit the account to the city accounting office, the city and the council retaining every right concerning it. Farewell. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinnius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Persicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Choiak 14. I, Aurelius Demetrios also called Eudaimon, councillor, request the 1 talent and 600 drachmas of silver, as stated above. [column ii] To the most excellent council of Hermopolis the great, ancient, illustrious and most august, through Aurelius Alexandros also called Korellius, gymnasiarch, of equestrian rank, former soldier, and however he is styled, prytanis in office of the same city, from Aurelius Didymos […] […] […] Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinnius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Persicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus […] Aurelius Didymos […]

The heating (prokausis) of public baths was a liturgical duty assigned by the council to one of its members. The second column's content is largely lost but probably parallel.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Chauffage des bains d'Hadrien). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.35.34

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Dez. 266 · Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)

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