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Heading of a return submitted to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by two elders of the pastophoroi of the temple of Isis Nanaia, Sarapis, Harpokrates and Souchos at Nabla. It introduces a list of the temple's pastophoroi for the first year of Septimius Severus (AD 194); the list itself is not preserved here.
Pastophoroi were lower-ranking temple personnel, literally 'shrine-bearers'. The temple is described as exempt from poll tax and other dues and as having the right of asylum.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἁρποκρατίωνι τῶι καὶ Ἱέρακι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Παλήμεως Ἁτρείους καὶ Εὑρήμονος Χράτου τῶν β πρεσβυτέρων παστοφόρων ἱεροῦ λογίμου τῆς ἐπὶ κώμης Νάβλας Ἴσιδος Ναναίας καὶ Σεράπιδος καὶ Ἁρποκράτου καὶ Σούχου θεῶν μεγίστων καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν ἀπολ…
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