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Release from liturgical service as express-post courier TM 23555Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. 396

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An agreement from Oxyrhynchus in AD 396 in which Aurelius Hierax, the official responsible for assigning liturgies to his tribe, releases Aurelius Amesis from service as a courier of the express post for the coming year. Hierax acknowledges receiving an agreed payment and undertakes to provide a substitute and protect Amesis from any claims.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Arcadius for the 4th time and Honorius for the 3rd time, the eternal Augusti, Thoth 1. Aurelius Hierax son of Horos, from the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, systates of the tribe about to perform liturgy and of other quarters, to Aurelius Amesis son of Ammon, from the same city, of the same tribe, greetings. I acknowledge that I have come to an agreement with you concerning the liturgy entrusted to you by me […], in the post of haliadites, that is letter-carrier of the express post, from the new moon of the present month Thoth until the fifth intercalary day of Mesore inclusive of the current year 73 and 42, [and I acknowledge that I have received] from you the sum agreed between us […] to present in your place the one who will perform it […] that I will keep you unmolested, free from loss, untroubled and free from exaction concerning everything relating to the same liturgy […]. This agreement, written in duplicate, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Hierax, systates, issued the receipt. I, Aurelius Dioskoros, assistant, have signed. […]

The systates was a city official who nominated men from a tribe or quarter for compulsory public services (liturgies); the haliadites appears to be a courier of the cursus velox. The year 73 and 42 is the Oxyrhynchite era reckoning.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Esonero da una liturgia). 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 · 29. Aug. 396 · Oxyrhynchos

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