Proceedings before a Strategus
Proceedings before a Strategus, in which a complainant asks to be relieved from undertaking a liturgy.
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Minutes of a hearing before the strategos on a liturgy nomination TM 12577ArsinoiteCopied after 197 A.D., March 3rd
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Copy of court minutes before Hierax also called Nemesion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, in AD 197. Satabous son of Maron of Karanis presented a petition referred by the prefect, complaining that he had been nominated for a liturgy while absent and without means, and the strategos ruled that he should not be nominated as village scribe.
In English machine translation
Copy of the minutes of Hierax also called Nemesion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome.
Year 5 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, Phamenoth 7, in public at the accounting office. Satabous son of Maron son of Satabous, from the village of Karanis, came forward and submitted a petition bearing a subscription of the most illustrious prefect, as follows: "Year 5, Mecheir 7. Of what sort your request is, the strategos will learn; deliver it." The strategos: "State your request." He said: "While I was abroad and without means, they nominated me." The strategos: "Let him not be nominated to the office of village scribe […]"
The village scribeship (komogrammateia) was a compulsory public service (liturgy), and the poor or absent could claim exemption. The restoration of the final ruling as a refusal of nomination depends partly on the editor's supplements.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proceedings before a Strategus). 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.oslo.3.81
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