A register of the village officials of Theadelphia in the Fayum for regnal year 7 (AD 166-167), listing by office the elders, police chiefs, runners, nomophylakes, night guards, guards, field guards, tower guards and peace guards.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
List of public officials, year 7
Elders:
Dioskoros son of Heron, grandson of Dioskoros
Theon son of Neilos
Eirenaios son of Ptolemaios
Heraklas son of Chairas
Mysthes son of Apollo(…)
Aphrod(…) son of Horion
Panesneus son of Horos
Ischyrion son of Herakl(…)
Mysthes son of Heron, grandson of Paas
Didy(…) son of Chrysippos
Peteeus son of Heron
Phaesis son of Horos
Chiefs of police (archephodoi):
Apynchis son of Karas
Posis son of Sambas
Posis son of Heron
Runners (epitrechontes):
Dionysios son of Sote(…)
Sambas son of Sabeinianus
Ptolemaios son of Zoilos
Papos son of Arabianus
Nomophylakes:
Eros son of Eros
Sokrates son of Artemidoros
Deios son of Osis
Night guards:
Theon son of Libanos
[column 2]
(deleted: […] son of Peeus)
(deleted: Mysthes son of Onnophris)
Isas son of Dioskoros
…
Kronion son of Aphrod(…)
Aphrod(…) son of Satabous
Orseus son of Heraklouios
Paesis son of Sambas
Mystharion son of Herakleides …
Horos son of Didas
Dionysios son of Timok(…)
Akes son of Peteeus, grandson of …
Sambas son of Apynchis, Iustus
Sarapion son of Mysthes, stepson of Neon
Horos son of Orsenouphis
alias Psenobastis
Ptolemaios son of Sabinus
Paesis son of Akous
Heron son of Zosimos
Apynchis son of Petekas
Herakles son of Panas
Guards:
Kopres son of Heron, grandson of Dioskoros
Isidoros, fatherless, mother Thermis
Satabous son of Pachois
alias Paleus
Amineios son of Zosimos
Kastor son of Ptollas, alias
Chaskas
[column 3]
Akous son of Akous, mother Taos
Pnepheros the younger, son of Apynchis
Albateios, fatherless, mother Tauris
Ekysis son of Siphon
Heron son of Timok(…)
Peteeus son of Eisas, alias the son of
Ibois
Didy(…) son of Heron, alias Antaios
Field guards:
Orsenouphis son of Orsenouphis, alias T…[…]
Sarapion son of Dionysios
Sarapion son of Apollo(…)
Herakl(…) son of Athenion
Orseus son of Sambas
Anoub(…) son of Mynios
Aunes son of Ptolemaios
Apollonios son of Isidoros
Orsekas son of Aphrodisios
Theon son of Posidonios
Akkoueis son of Mel[…]
Tower guards (magdolophylakes):
Harphaesis son of Karas
Heron son of Ischyrion
Peace guards (eirenophylakes):
Heron son of Horion
[column 4]
…
Kaetis son of Heron
Hermes son of Herakl(…)
Year 7 is that of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Several office titles (epitrechontes, nomophylakes, magdolophylakes) are village police posts without exact English equivalents.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste von Dorfbeamten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.