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p.mert.2.90 Oxyrhynchos
Letter of the Senate to the Strategus via HGV-meta
Letter of the Oxyrhynchite council to the strategos about elected embolarchs. Letter from the town council of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Aurelius Dioskourides about two men, Severus and Agathinos, elected by the council as embolarchs (officials overseeing the shipment of grain) on the order of the catholicus Aurelius Sarapion. The council asks that they not be diverted from this duty until the procurator arrives. machine translation
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- Letter of the Senate to the Strategus HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos311
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Transcription
Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης πόλεως
ἡ κρατίστη βουλὴ διά[…]
τοῦ καὶ Σερήνου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος βουλευτοῦἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως
Αὐρηλίῳ Διοσκουρίδῃ[…]
στρατηγῷ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν.
κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ κυρίου μου διασημοτάτου καθολικοῦ Αὐρηλίου Σαραπίωνος
ἐκ γραμμάτων τοῦ κυρίου μου ἐπιτρόπου
κατὰ τὴν πρὸ η καλανδῶν Ἰουνίων
ᾑρέθησαν ὑπὸ τῆς κοινότητος τοῦ βουλευτηρίου εἰς ἐμβολαρχίαν Σεουῆρος Ἡραισκου καὶ Ἀγαθεῖνος Ἀγαθείνου πίστεως
καὶ ἐπιεικίας χάριν· ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἔγνων
ἐπιδημήσας καὶ τῇ πρὸ ιζ καλανδῶν Ἰουλίων κατὰ γραμματεῖον παρα
[…] ἥκω ἐπὶ τῆς
[…]… ἐπὶ αὐτῶν ᾑρημένων[…]… διά τοι τοῦτο ἐπι
[…] ὅπως τῷ αὐτῷ Σαραπίωνι[…]…ι πρόσεστι
ἐπιτηδείως […]…[…]…[…]…η μηδαμῶς ἀπασχολήσῃς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπιτάγματος τῆς ἐμβολαρχίας ἀναγκαίου ὄντος ἄχρις τῆς ἐπιδημίας τοῦ κυρίου μου ἐπιτρόπου, ἵνα τῶν
[…]…… τῆς γιγνομένης
[…]…μελλούσης
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
The most excellent council of the Oxyrhynchites, of the illustrious and most illustrious city, through […] also called Serenos, former gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office,
to Aurelius Dioskourides […] strategos, dearest, greetings.
In accordance with the order of my lord the most eminent catholicus Aurelius Sarapion, following a letter of my lord the procurator, on the 8th day before the Kalends of June there were elected by the body of the council chamber to the office of embolarch Severus son of Heraiskos and Agathinos son of Agathinos, on account of their trustworthiness and fairness; but since I learned, having arrived, and on the 17th day before the Kalends of July by a document […] I come to the […] concerning those elected […] for this very reason […] so that to the same Sarapion […] is attached suitably […] you should in no way take them away from the duty of the embolarchy, which is necessary, until the arrival of my lord the procurator, so that the […] of the coming […] of the future […]
[…]
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- TM-Text 21322 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mert;2;90 tier-1
- HGV-Text 21322 tier-1
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