A list submitted to Flavius Apollonios nominating men of means, each with property of 1 talent, to supervise the rebuilding of a round structure in the western part of the great gymnasium. It comes from Ptolemais Euergetis, capital of the Arsinoite nome; notes on the nominees' past offices have been struck through.
In English machine translation
To Flavius Apollonios, from the same persons.
For taking charge of the supervision and rebuilding of the round building (?) of the western quarter, which is in the great gymnasium, we nominate the persons written below, being men of means and suitable. They are:
Melas son of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, Alexandrian, having property of 1 talent
⟦kinsman of Melas, former gymnasiarch, having been supervisor of the 35th (?) in year 16⟧
Longinus also called Serenus, son of Theagenes, Alexandrian, likewise 1 talent
⟦living in Phremei, having been harbour guard⟧
Sempronius, son of Pontius Licinnius Celer, 1 talent
⟦having been harbour guard in year 15, living in the Great Street of the Goldsmiths⟧
Neilos son of Philippos son of Philippos, from Bithynon Allon Topon, 1 talent
landowner at Theadelphia ⟦once assistant of Hermias the amphodarch, having been supervisor of the 1 percent tax on market dues in year 16⟧
Harpokration son of Harpokration son of Ptolemaios, from Syriake, likewise 1 talent
⟦[…] of Potamon, having been village scribe⟧
⟦of Memphis, in the (quarter?) of Aline⟧
Dion[…]
[…]
The 'strongyle' (round building) is an uncertain architectural term. The deleted lines record each nominee's previous liturgies and residence; the reading 'the 35th' in the first deletion is doubtful.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Propositions pour une curatelle). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.