One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 397536
Sworn declaration of public farmers on collecting reed for Hadrian's visit TM 397536Karanis (Arsinoites)130
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A sworn declaration by two public farmers of the village of Philagris to Herodes also called Tiberius, strategos of the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome, stating that farmers from Dionysias were assigned to work with them collecting 2,800 loads of reed for the emperor Hadrian's supply. It belongs to the preparations for Hadrian's visit to Egypt in AD 130.
In English machine translation
To Herodes also called Tiberius, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Themistos,
from Heraklas son of Chariton son of Dionysios and Patynis son of Heron son of Hatres, the two from the village of Philagris, public farmers. We swear by the Fortune of the Emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus that there have been assigned to us chosen public farmers of the village of Dionysias to join with us in collecting into suitable places the 2,800 loads of flax-reed (?) for the supply of the most great Emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus […]
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These are new fragments of P.Cair.Mich. II 14, a declaration of mutual liability; the end of the text is lost. The word for the reed (restored as linokalame, flax stalks) is largely restored and uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration of mutual liability addressed to the strategos as part of preparations for Hadrian’s visit to Egypt: new fragments to P.Cair. Mich. II 14). 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.mich.3.10
Ἡρώδῃ τῶι καὶ Τιβερίῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου Μερίδος Ἡρακλᾶς Χαρίτωνος τοῦ Διονυσίου καὶ Πατῦνις Ἥρωνος τοῦ Ἁτρέως οἱ δύο ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλαγρίδος δημόσιοι γεωργοί. ὀμνύομεν τὴν Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Τύχην προστίθεσθαι ἡμῖν ἐκλεκτοὺς τῆς κώμης Διονυσι…