Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · papyrus
Appointment to a liturgy
Description
This papyrus throws an interesting light on the method of appointment to public duties. Usually persons were appointed, whether by the senate or by an official, to some definite liturgy; but in the present case a citizen of Oxyrhynchus and his son had been selected to perform an unspecified liturgy for eight months, and they make a contract with the systates, the official in question, whereby in return for receiving a very light duty, i.e. that of guarding the temple of Tho�ris, they agree to perform it for a whole year. The body of the contract seems to have been drawn up by the agent of a professional writer of contracts, who appends his signature.
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (5)
- TM-Text 21940 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1847 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;14;1627 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy.14.1627 tier-1
- HGV-Text 21940 tier-1
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.