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Nomination of a letter-carrier of the express post TM 15356Oxyrhynchos359

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A nomination to a compulsory public service, addressed to Apollonios also called Theodoulos, logistes (city curator) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, by Aurelius Mouses son of Theon, systates of a city tribe. He puts forward, at his own risk, a man for one year as a letter-carrier of the express post. The name of the nominee is lost; the document dates to AD 359 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavii Eusebius and Hypatius, the most illustrious. To […] Apollonios also called Theodoulos, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Mouses son of Theon, from the same city, systates of the tribe of Dromos Gymnasiou and other quarters. I give and nominate, at my own risk, to the post of haliadites, that is letter-carrier of the express post, for one year, […]

The systates was the official of a city tribe responsible for nominating men to liturgies. Haliadites is a rare term, glossed in the text itself as letter-carrier of the express (cursus velox) post.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nomination to a Public Service). 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.oxy.51.3623

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 359 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Φλαουΐων Εὐσεβίου καὶ Ὑπατίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων […]ῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ καὶ Θεοδούλῳ λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Μουσῆ Θέωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως συστάτου φυλῆς Δρόμου Γυμνασίου καὶ ἄλλων ἀμφόδων. δίδωμι καὶ εἰσαγγέλλω ἰδίῳ μου κινδύνῳ εἰς χώραν ἁλιαδίτου ἤτοι γραμματηφόρ…