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Address of a grain supervisor to the council of Oxyrhynchus concerning a succession TM 140159Oxyrhynchos356 (?)

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Opening of an official document from Oxyrhynchus, probably of AD 356, in which Aurelius Dioskoros, a town councillor and supervisor of grain shipments for Alexandria, addresses Aurelius Sa[...] and the other councillors. It concerns the succession of someone named Kal[...] and the receiving of something, perhaps in connection with a liturgy (compulsory public service).

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the [...] time and Julian the most illustrious Caesar for the [...] time, [...] Aurelius Dioskoros, councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, supervisor of grain for Alexandria, to Aurelius Sa[...] [...] and all the councillors of the same city [...] concerning the succession of Kal[...] [...] the reception of the [...] [...]

The emperor's name is restored as Constantine in the edition, but a consulship shared with Julian Caesar belongs to Constantius II; most of the titles and the purpose (possibly substitution in a liturgy) are editorial restorations.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Substitution of 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.

p.mich.20.818

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 356 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου Αὐγούστου τὸ […] καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ […] […] Αὐρήλιος Διόσκορος βουλευτὴς τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἐπιμελητὴς σίτου Ἀλεξανδρείας Αὐρήλιοις Σα[…] τοῖς πᾶσι βουλευταῖς τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως […] ὑπὲρ τῆ…