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Fragment of a surety declaration, sworn by an oath, in which a guarantor undertakes to a noble landowner (addressed as 'your gloriousness') that Aurelius […], son of Abraamios and Termouthis, an enrolled tenant farmer from the hamlet of Neon near Skeuomisthiou, will stay permanently on the estate with his family, animals and belongings. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome in the 6th or 7th century AD.
An enapographos georgos (Latin colonus adscripticius) was a farmer registered to a landowner's estate and legally bound to stay on it. Such sureties were typically given to Oxyrhynchite great houses like the Apiones.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bürgschaft für einen "colonus adscripticius"). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] τὸν θεῖον καὶ σεβάσμιον ὅρκον ἐγγυᾶσθαι καὶ ἀναδέχεσθαι παρὰ τῆς ὑμῶν ἐνδοξότητος διὰ τῆς ὑμῶν μεγαλοπρεπείας Αὐρήλιον[…]…[…]α υἱὸν Ἀβρααμίου μητρὸς Τερμουθίης ὁρμώμενον ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Nέου περὶ Σκευομισθίου διαφέροντος τῇ αὐτῇ ὑμῶν ἐνδοξότητι καὶ αὐτὸν ἐναπόγραφ…
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