One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23541
Surety for the appearance of a village scribe of the Lower Leukopyrgites TM 23541Hermopolites
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A surety declaration in which Dioskoros son of Hermaios of Hermopolis guarantees to three Hermopolitans that he will produce Menandros son of Dionysios, village scribe of Senkyrkis, Tachoi and other villages of the Lower Leukopyrgites toparchy, whenever they demand. It is dated in year 2 of Hadrian, Mecheir 15, in the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Dioskoros son of Hermaios, of Hermopolis, to Metokos and Horion, both sons of Hermaios, and Asklepiades son of Kallistratos, of Hermopolis, greetings. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily received and gone surety for Menandros son of Dionysios, village scribe of Senkyrkis and Tachoi and other villages of the Lower Leukopyrgites, whom I will also produce whenever you choose; and if I do not produce him, […] I, while I present to you his affairs (?), so that I shall receive the surety. Year 2 […] of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 15.
The clause about failure to produce Menandros is damaged and its penalty is lost, so the translation there is uncertain. Such guarantees of a person's appearance are known as surety for appearance (Latin manus iniectio is not meant; the record calls it malleveria).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Malleveria). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.flor.1.8
Διόσκορος Ἑρμαίου Ἑρμοπολίτης Μητόκῳ καὶ Ὡρίωνι ἀμφοτέροις Ἑρμαίου καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ Καλλιστράτου Ἑρμοπολίταις χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἑκουσίως παρειληφέναι καὶ ἐγγεγυῆσθαι Μένανδρον Διονυσίου κωμογραμματέα Σενκύρκεως καὶ Ταχόϊ καὶ ἄλλων κωμῶν τοῦ Λευκοπυργείτου κάτω ὃν καὶ παραστήσω ὁπηνί…