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Nomination of replacement quarter-patrol officers for city quarters TM 10231Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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Nomination of replacements for six quarter-patrol officers in the city of Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) whose term of office had ended. The writers put forward wealthy and suitable men, listing each by quarter with occupation and declared property, to serve from the month of Thoth.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] [in place of] […]os son of Hatres, quarter-patrol officer (amphodoepitrechon) of the Apollonios Parembole quarter, and Satyros son of Satyros, former sword-bearer (machairophoros), likewise of the Hermouthiake quarter, and […]os son of Heron son of Dioskoros, likewise of the Hiera Pyle quarter, and Berenikianos, also called neighbour (?), Ammonios son of Tychaios, wine-seller, likewise of the Lysanias Topoi quarter, and Ptolemaios called Moros, living in the Phremei quarter, likewise of Phanesios, and Chairemon son of […]phe son of […]on, likewise of Phremei, the 6 quarter-patrol officers of the aforementioned quarters, who have completed their term, we present for Thoth the undersigned, who are well-off and suitable. They are: Apollonios Parembole: Deios, also called […], basket-weaver, living in the Parembole, having resources of […] drachmas. Hermouthiake: Syntrophos, freedman of Stratokles, former exegetes, without distinguishing marks (?), 300 drachmas. Hiera Pyle: Harpalos, also called […], wool-carder, living near Didymas son of Heron, merchant, […] [… lines lost …]

The amphodoepitrechontes were liturgical police officers patrolling the quarters (amphoda) of the Fayum metropolis; candidates had to meet a property qualification. Several names and their quarter assignments in the opening lines are uncertain because of damage.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Présentations pour le remplacement de liturges sortant de charge dans les services de la police de quartiers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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