One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30053

Oath of a guard undertaking to watch over the city, temples and statues TM 30053unbekanntIII

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Fragment of a sworn declaration in which someone undertakes to perform a duty faithfully, keeping watch night and day over a city, its sacred precincts and its statues. It dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] (only scattered letters survive from about 10 lines) […] [column 2] […] […] the duty (?) and to carry it out, being present, soundly and faithfully, and to keep the watch by night and by day and to make the guard of the same city and of the sacred precincts in it and of the statues and public (?) […], or may I be liable [to the oath] […] […]

The phrase 'or may I be liable to the oath' is the standard closing of such undertakings; the first column preserves only isolated letters.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dichiarazione giurata). 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.harr.2.204r

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III

[r,1] [… ? lines lost …] […]… […]…ε […]α […]πι […]… […]κι… […]να […]ς […]… […]… [… ? lines lost …] [r,2] [… ? lines lost …] …[…] χρείας καὶ ἐκτελέσαι ταύτην ἐνφανὴς ὠν ὑγιῶς καὶ πιστῶς καὶ τὴν διὰ νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν τήρησειν καὶ παραφυλακὴν ποιήσασθαι τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐ…