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Public posting of a letter of the epistrategos on appointments to public duties TM 16424Oxyrhynchos17. Juli 118

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Public notice by Demetrios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, posting a copy of a letter from the epistrategos Julius Maximianus about the appointment of men to public offices. The epistrategos asks that his letter be displayed publicly alongside the minutes listing the appointees. Dated 17 July AD 118 at Oxyrhynchus; the end is lost.

In English machine translation

Demetrios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome. I have publicly posted, as I was ordered, a copy of the letter written to me by Julius Maximianus, the most excellent epistrategos, concerning the appointment of officials for (public) business, so that all may know what he has ordered. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Epeiph 23. Julius Maximianus to Demetrios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. Even though the names of those appointed to the (public) business will be clear from the minutes which I have posted, I thought it not superfluous to make them known also by means of this letter, which I wish you too to post in a public place. For I am persuaded that all those appointed by me, as I believe, carefully and with the scrutiny that was proper, [in accordance with] the instructions of the most excellent prefect […]

The pragmatika or pragmateiai were compulsory public duties (liturgies) to which men were appointed after scrutiny of their means. The epistrategos was the Roman official supervising a group of nomes.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Epistrategus). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17. Juli 118 · Oxyrhynchos

Δημήτριος στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχείτου. τῆς γραφείσης μοι ὑπὸ Ἰουλίου Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ κρατίστου ἐπιστρατήγου περὶ καταστάσεως πραγματικῶν ἀντίγραφον δημοσίᾳ προέθηκα ὡς ἐκελεύσθη, ἵνα πάντες εἰδῶσι ἃ διετάξατο. ἔτους δευτέρου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἐπεὶφ κγ. Ἰο…