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The opening of an agreement drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 29 August 356, in which Aurelius Mouses son of Theon, systates (organizer) of the city tribe then serving in public liturgies, addresses Aurelius P[…] Silvanus of the same tribe. It concerns an annual liturgy assigned to Silvanus, but the text breaks off before its terms survive.
A systates was the official of a city tribe (phyle) responsible for nominating its members to compulsory public services (liturgies). The precise liturgy and the terms of the agreement are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of a Systates). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου τὸ η καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ ἀνδρειοτάτου καὶ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α, Θὼθ α. Αὐρήλιος Μουσῆς Θέωνος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως συστάτης τῆς νυνὶ λειτουργούσης φυλῆς Δρόμου Γυμνασίου καὶ ἄλλων ἀμφόδων …
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