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p.leit.4 ca. 161
Protest Against Nomination to a Liturgy via HGV-meta
Petition to the prefect protesting nomination to a liturgy. Copy of a petition to the prefect of Egypt, Lucius Volusius Maecianus, from Serapion son of Hargothes, apparently aged 72, protesting his nomination to a compulsory public service (liturgy) and asking to be left undisturbed. A scribe, Paesis, wrote for him because he was illiterate, and the prefect's reply refers the matter to the nome strategos. machine translation
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- Protest Against Nomination to a Liturgy HGV-meta unbekanntca. 161
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Transcription
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[…]…[…]…
[…] ἀριθμῷ σκβ
[…]ἔστι δέ· Λουκίῳ Οὐολουσίῳ
Μαικιανῷ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Σεραπίωνος Ἁργώθου μητρὸςΤατίχεως τῆς Παχύμιος
ἀπὸ[…]ἑβδομήκοντα δύο ἔτη
[…] εἰσεδόθην κατʼ ἐπήρειαν[…]…τοι τῶν κατὰ καιρὸν
ἡγεμόνων καὶ ἐπιστρατήγων[…] …η κρατεῖσθαι …
[…]οὐ μόνον τούτους ἀλλὰ
καὶ[…]λειτουργίαν ὁπότε πρὸ πολλοῦ χρόνου[…] κατὰ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον
οὖν, ἡγεμὼν κύριε, κατέφυγον ἐπὶ σὲ τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀξιῶν,
ἐάν σου τῇ τύχῃ δόξῃ, γράψαι τῷ τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγῷ ἀπαρενόχλητόν με φυλαχθῆναι,
ἵνα δυνηθῶ[…]ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις ἐπιμένειν
καὶ ὦ εὐεργετημένος. διευτύχει.[…]… Σεραπίων Ἁργώθου
μητρὸςΤατίχεως τῆς Παχύμιος ἐπιδέδωκα καθὼς πρόκειται τὸ ἀναφόριον. Παῆσις
τοῦ δεῖνα[…]ἔγραψαὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα.
ἔστι δὲ ὑπογραφῆς τοῦ ἡγεμόνος ἀντίγραφον·[…]ὁ τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγὸς ποιήσει τὰ
δέοντα.[…]
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[...]
[...] ... [...] ...
[...] number 222
[...] It is as follows: To Lucius Volusius Maecianus, prefect of Egypt, from Serapion son of Hargothes, his mother being Tatichis daughter of Pachymis,
[from ...] [...] seventy-two years
[...] I was nominated out of spite (?) [...] ... of the prefects and epistrategoi at the time
[...] ... to be held ...
[...] not only these but
[also ...] [...] liturgy, since long ago [...] Out of necessity
[therefore, lord prefect, I have fled to you, the saviour and] benefactor of all, asking,
[if it seems good to your Fortune, to write to the strategos of the nome] that I be kept undisturbed,
[so that I may be able ...] [...] to remain in my own affairs
[and be benefited. Farewell.] [...] ... I, Serapion son of Hargothes,
[my mother being Tatichis daughter of Pachymis, have submitted] the petition [as stated above]. Paesis
[son of ...] [...] [wrote] on his behalf because he does not know letters.
[The copy of the prefect's subscription is as follows:] [...] The strategos of the nome will do
[what is necessary.] [...]
[...]
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