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Letter Concerning Bail for Five Weavers in a Legal Case (14-37 CE) Euhemeria - Fayum region


Euhemeria (Fayum region, Egypt — Pleiades map), 14-37 CE
GRA III 205 = PRyl II 94 = Arthur S. Hunt and C.C. Edgar, eds. Select Papyri (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934) 188–189 (no. 255) = Papyri.info TM 13009 = AGRW ID# 31190
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1280


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Papyrus (15.4 x 13.3 cm). Currently located at John Rylands Library, Manchester (inv. Gr. 94).

Herakles son of Petesouchos, leader (hēgoumōn) of the weavers (gerdioi) of Euhemeria, and Aphrodisios son of Asklepiades, secretary (grammateus) of the same weavers, to Heron agent of Sotas, advisor (exēgētēs), greetings. We acknowledge that we stand as sureties to you for Apheus son of Apheus, Harpagathes son of Orsenouphis, Heras son of Orsenouphis, Melas son of Hergeus, and Herakles son of Apollonios, all five weavers of the said village of Euhemeria, and that we must produce them to you whenever you choose in order to answer the claims in the petition of Paninoutis son of Aphrodisios the wool-worker (eriourgos).  I, the Aphrodisios mentioned earlier, have written for Herakles because he is illiterate. The . . . xth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus on the 18th of Epeiph.

Translation by: Mark Mueller (with modifications)



Ἡρακλῆς Πετεσούχ(ου) ἡγούμενος γερδίων | Εὐημερήας (⟦η⟧υημερηας) καὶ Ἀφροδ(ίσιος) Ἀσκληπιάδου | γραμματεὺς τῶν αὐτῶν γερδίων | Ἥρωνι χιριστῇ (χειριστῇ) Σώτου ἐξηγητοῦ χα(ίρειν). || ὁμουλογοῦ[μ]εν (ὁμολογοῦμεν) ἐνγεγυῆσ̣σθαι (ἐγγεγυῆσθαι) | παρὰ σοῦ Ἀφ̣[ε]ῦ̣ν Ἀφεῦτο̣ς̣ καὶ Ἁρπα|γάθην Ὀρσε[ν]ουφιον (Ὀρσε[ν]ούφιος) καὶ Ἡρᾶν Ὀ̣ρσεν(ούφιος) | καὶ Μέλαν[α Ἑ]ρ̣γ̣έως καὶ Ἡρακλῆν | Ἀπολλωνι (Ἀπολλωνί<ου>) τοὺς πέντε γερδίους || τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Εὐημερήας | καὶ ἐπάνανκον (ἐπάναγκον) παραστησι (παραστήσει<ν>) σοι αὐτου (αὐτοὺ<ς>) | ὁπηνίκα ἐὰν ἑρῇ (αἱρῇ) ἐκδικοῦντες τὰ διὰ (τ̣οα) | τοῦ ὑπομνήματος Πανινούτιος τοῦ | Ἀφροδισίου ἐρι(ουργοῦ) ?. Ἀφροδ(ίσιος) ὁ προγεγραμμέ||νος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτο͂ (αὐτο<ῦ>) Ἡρακλήου διὰ | τ̣[ὸ] μ̣ὴ̣ ε̣ἰ̣δέναι αὐτὸν γράμματα. (ἔτους) | [ ̣ ̣ Τιβε]ρί[ο]υ̣ Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Ἐπεὶφ ιη.

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