One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11231
Nomination of replacement candidates for the collectorship of money taxes TM 11231Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)20. Juli 186
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The village elders of Soknopaiou Nesos, acting also as village scribe, nominate four well-off men to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome as replacements for four absent candidates for the post of collector of money taxes. The nominees were to be sent to the epistrategos for selection by lot. Dated 20 July 186.
In English machine translation
To Apollotas, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Soterichos son of Sotas and the other elders, who are also discharging the duties of the village scribeship of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos.
In place of Tryphon son of Sempronius and Paouetis son of Pekas and Pnepheros son of Sotas and Harpaesis son of Harpagathes, the 4 men in the lot for the collectorship of money taxes of the aforesaid village, who are not to be found, we submit the undersigned, being well-off and suitable, to be sent for the lot to the most excellent epistrategos.
They are:
Satyros son of Asklepiades, having property of 800 drachmas
Sotas son of Sotas, called Asiarch, likewise 800 drachmas
Pabous son of Pabous, likewise 700 drachmas
Stotoetis son of Sotas, stonemason, likewise 700 drachmas
Soterichos, aged 50, scar on the forehead on the left.
Year 26 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Epeiph 26.
Liturgical posts like the praktoria were compulsory public services; candidates had to meet a property qualification, hence the stated property values (poros). The final line gives the identifying description of the submitter Soterichos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste de remplacement pour une liturgie). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.gen.1.37
p.gen.1.2ed.37
Ἀπολλωτᾷ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοΐτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Σωτηρίχου Σώτου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν πρεσβυτέρων διαδεχομένων καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν κωμογραμματείαν κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. ἀντὶ Τρύφωνος Σεμπρωνίου καὶ Παουῆτις Πεκᾶτος καὶ Πνεφερῶτος Σώτου καὶ Ἁρπαήσεως Ἁρπαγάθου τῶν δ ἐν κλήρῳ πρακτορία…