One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33284
Surety for a councillor appointed to supervise the transport of meat TM 33284Hermopolisca. 320
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Declaration of surety in which Aurelius Artemidoros and Aurelius Olympios guarantee that Aurelius Hermaios, a city councillor chosen to supervise the collection and transport of meat, will carry out his duty and produce the usual receipts. If he abandons his post, the guarantors take on his liability. Written at Hermopolis around AD 320.
In English machine translation
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[…] voluntarily and of our own free will to have stood surety for Aurelius Hermaios also called […], councillor of the same city, chosen for the supervision and transport of meat, whom we shall also produce, fulfilling blamelessly the supervision entrusted to him, and (who) will furnish the customary receipts for the delivery of the meat. But if he deserts his post and we do not produce him, we ourselves shall undertake the liability on his behalf, or may we be liable to the divine oath and to the penalty concerning this; and having been asked the formal question, we agreed.
In the aforesaid consulship, Pharmouthi 9.
I, Aurelius Artemidoros son of Sarapion, stand surety as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Olympios son of Hermes, stand co-surety with him as aforesaid.
The opening, including the addressee and the consular date, is lost; the meat was probably destined for the military annona. The verb 'deserts his post' (leipotaktein) is military in origin and used here of abandoning a liturgical duty.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Surety). 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.cair.preis.2ed.16
[… ? lines lost …] […] ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως ἐγγεγυῆσθαι Αὐρήλιον Ἑρμαῖον τὸν καὶ …[…] βουλευτὴν τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως αἱρεθέντα εἰς τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν καὶ ἀνακομιδὴν κρέως ὃν καὶ παραστήσομεν ἀμέμπτως ἀποπληροῦντα τὴν ἐγχειρισθεῖσαν αὐτῷ ἐπιμέλειαν καὶ τῆς τοῦ κρέως παραδόσεως ἐποίσειν…