Fragments of the minutes of a hearing before Pompeianus, prefect of Egypt, in which a man named Dioskoros discusses his appointment to the euthenarchy, the municipal office responsible for the food supply. He says he can serve only with assistance, and the prefect asks about daily expenditure and his means. From Oxyrhynchus, AD 288-290.
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[...]
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[...] you will receive (?) [...]
[...] we seek [...]
[...] of the [...] from [...] [Pompeianus, vir perfectissimus,]
prefect of Egypt [...] said to [Diosko]ros: "Sufficient (?) [...]"
[...]
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[...]doro[...] the eutheniarchy [...]
[...] [Pompeianus, vir perfecti]ssimus, prefect [of Egypt], said to him: "[...] with assistance he can [...]"
[...] "I cannot undertake the eutheniarchy, but with assistance." Pompeianus, [vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt] [...]
[...] "[With] what help can you?" He answered: "I do not need advance funds. But it is the custom for the prytanis [...]"
[...] "Euporos too testified for you." Pompeianus, vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt, [said to him]: [...]
[...] "you may examine (?)." Pompeianus, vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt, said to him: "It is quite clear [...]"
[...] "I can give 200 [...]." Pompeianus, vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt [...]
[...] "How much is spent each day?" [Pompeian]us, vir perfectissimus, prefect [of Egypt] [...]
[...] "[...] is spent [...]" Pompeianus [vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt] [...]
[...] having heard (?) [...] of the magistrate [...]
[...] [Pompeian]us, vir perfectissimus, [prefect of Egypt], said to Dioskoros: "As [...]"
[...] [Pompeianus, vir perfectissimus,] prefect of Egypt [...]
[...] [Pompeianus, vir per]fectissimus, prefect [of Egypt] [...]
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The euthenarchy (here euthêniarchia) was a liturgical civic office supervising the provisioning of the city. 'Vir perfectissimus' renders the Greek honorific diasêmotatos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.