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Nomination of a sailor for the public flat-bottomed boats TM 16588Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. 386

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A nomination to a compulsory public service (liturgy) addressed to the logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome by Aurelius Mouses, the official responsible for a city tribe. He names Aurelius Antiochos son of Dorotheos to serve for one year as a sailor on the public flat-bottomed boats. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 29 August 386.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavius Honorius the most noble and Flavius Euodius, Thoth 1. To Flavius Hesychius, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Mouses son of Theon, from the same city, systates of the tribe of the Dromos Gymnasiou and other quarters. I give and nominate, at my own risk, for nautical service on the public flat-bottomed boats for one year, from the new moon of Thoth to the fifth intercalary day of Mesore, inclusive of the fifth itself, of the current year 63 and 32, of the present fifteenth indiction, the person written below, who is suitable for the duty. He is: Aurelius Antiochos son of Dorotheos, from the same city, of the same tribe. I, Aurelius Mouses, systates, have submitted this.

The systates was a ward or tribe official who nominated residents for liturgies at his own risk, i.e. liable if they failed. Year 63 and 32 is the Oxyrhynchite era count.

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 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. 386 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Ὁνωρίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου καὶ Φλαουίου Εὐοδίου· Θὼθ α· Φλαουίῳ Ἡσυχίῳ λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Μουσέως Θέωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως συστάτου φυλῆς Δρόμου Γυμνασίου καὶ ἄλλων ἀμφόδων· δίδωμι καὶ εἰσαγγέλλω τῷ ἰδίῳ μου κινδύνῳ εἰς ναυτικὴν ὑπηρεσίαν δημοσί…