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CERTIFIED DECLARATION OF PAGAN SACRIFICE

Original text: PRyl 12
Date: A.D. 250.

To the commissioners of sacrifices from Aurelia Demos, without patronymic, daughter of Helena and wife of Aurelius Irenaeus, of the quarter of the Hellenium. I have always been wont to sacrifice to the gods, and now also in your presence, in accordance with the command I have made sacrifice and libation and tasted the offering, and I request you to certify my statement. Farewell. (Signed) I, Aurelia Demos, have presented this declaration. I, Aurelius Irenaeus, wrote for her, as she is illiterate. (Attested) I, Aurelius Sabinus, prytanis, saw you sacrificing. (Dated) The 1st year of the Emperor Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius Pius Felix Augustus, Pauni 20.


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