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Petition of Oxyrhynchite landholders to the strategos about a dyke TM 15911Oxyrhynchos297 - 298 (?)

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Opening of a petition to Aurelius Zenagenes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from a group of prominent Oxyrhynchite citizens, including former magistrates and two women, and their partners. The surviving text breaks off as they begin to describe a dyke, presumably on land they hold.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] Year 14 and 13 of our lords Diocletian [and Maximian Augusti and 6 of Constantius and] Maximian the most noble Caesars. To Aurelius Zenagenes, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Horion also called Sarapion, former hypomnematographos, ex-prytanis, and Seuthes also called Horion, both gymnasiarchs, and Thonios also called Theogenes, exegetes, and Claudia Heliodora daughter of Kanopion, former hypomnematographos, ex-official (?), and Techosous also called Eudaimonis daughter of Didymos also called Eudaimon, gymnasiarch, councillor, all of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, and their partners. There is, then, best of strategoi, a dyke in the places where […] […]

The hypomnematographos, gymnasiarch, exegetes and prytanis were municipal offices held by the local elite. The phrase rendered 'ex-official' (apo stephanou) literally means 'from the crown', denoting someone who has held a crowned office.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a Petition). 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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p.oxy.45.3246

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 297 - 298 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν καὶ ϛ Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων Αὐρηλίῳ Ζηναγένι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Ὡρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Σαραπίωνος γενομένου ὑπομνηματογράφου πρυτανεύσαντος καὶ…