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Petition of camel-keepers against nomination to liturgies TM 11616Arsinoites216 - 217

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Fragmentary petition by a group of camel-keepers, including Sarapion son of Kastor and men from Dionysias, protesting their nomination to liturgies such as compulsory sowing in the Herakleides division. They cite earlier rulings of prefects and an epistrategos granting them exemption. Arsinoite nome, AD 216-217.

In English machine translation

[…] and all insolence […] […] of Claudius Xenophon, former epistrategos […] […] of the Augusti, after […] […] Lucius Valerius Datus […] son of Soterichos and Sarapion son of Kastor and […] […] and those with them […] […] camel-keepers […] […] nominated for compulsory sowing of the division of Herakleides […] and of you the procurators […] […] to maintain exemption from liturgies […] […] that you will confirm […] […] were nominated to liturgies […] […] of Epipolis […] […] from the village of Dionysias, and Sarapion son of Kastor and […] […] Soterichos and Charidemos […] […] nominated for compulsory sowing of the division of Herakleides […] Chairemon […] […] the guard duty […] […] but since each of us has […] […] he declared that these were exempt from liturgies […] […] [a letter written to the strategoi of the nome], dated in the year […] […] and of Liberalis, former prefect […] […] [in accordance with what was ordered] by Volusius Maecianus, former prefect, [and Valerius Datus] the most eminent prefect […] […] dated in the past year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, [by] a letter written to the strategoi of the Arsinoite nome […] if now they themselves […] […] and the other […] […] you may have exemption from liturgies there and […] […] if it seems good to you, clear proof (?) […] […] so that they may not harass […] […] to overlook us, the laws […] […] […] camel-drivers necessarily (?) […] for […]

Kataspora was compulsory sowing of state land imposed as a liturgy. The petitioners invoke precedents from prefects Volusius Maecianus and Valerius Datus.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protest Against Nomination to a Liturgy). 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 · 216 - 217 · Arsinoites

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