One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121959
Nomination of liturgists for dike work from Takona TM 121959From Oxyrhynchite nomeApril 4, 314 CE
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Fragmentary list nominating villagers from Takona in the Oxyrhynchite nome to compulsory public service (liturgy) on the public dikes, with guarantors named. It was submitted by Aurelius Valerianus and a colleague on 3 April 314, and Valerianus signed for his illiterate colleague.
In English machine translation
[…]…
[…]dio[…]
[…]
[…] of Ischyrion […]
[…]
[…]
[…]…angg…otos
[…]…[…]tos
[…] dike-clearer (ekboleus) of the same public dikes
[…] Panouris son of Dioskoros; guarantor Ammonios son of Psenamounis;
[…] Ammonios son of Prooús
all from the village of Takona.
In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus
[…] the most illustrious, Pharmouthi 8.
We, Aurelius Valerianus and […]pianus, have submitted (this).
I, Aurelius Valerianus, wrote on behalf of the other, who does not know letters.
An ekboleus was a worker who cleared earth and silt from dikes and canals. One record gives the date as 4 April 314, but Pharmouthi 8 corresponds to 3 April.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nomination of Liturgists Performing Dike Work). 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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