Propositon pour une liturgie
Proposal from comarches to the praepositus about a liturgy
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17555
Nomination of two men for the komarchy to the praepositus pagi TM 17555Possibly Panopolites, village in the Panopolite nome, province of EgyptAugust 12, 318 A.D.
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A nomination by the village headmen (komarchs) of a village in the Panopolite nome to the praepositus of the 2nd pagus, proposing two well-off men to serve as komarchs and guaranteeing their performance. It is dated 12 August 318.
In English machine translation
[…] to […], praepositus of the 2nd pagus,
from […], komarchs of the village of […]. We nominate and put forward the two men registered below, being well-off and suitable for the office of komarch, for whom we also stand surety and whom we will present to discharge it blamelessly […] […] and having been asked the formal question we agreed.
They are: […]
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In the consulship of our masters Licinius Augustus for the 5th time and Crispus the most noble Caesar for the 1st time, Mesore 19.
[…], komarchs, we nominate as aforesaid. […] I wrote on their behalf because they do not know letters.
A komarch was a village headman, a compulsory public service (liturgy) assigned to men of sufficient property; the praepositus pagi oversaw a district (pagus) of the nome. Much of the formula is restored from parallel nominations.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proposition pour une liturgie). 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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[…]πραιποσίτῳ β πάγου παρὰ[…]κωμαρχῶν κώμης[…]εἰσαγγέλλομεν καὶ ἀναδίδομεν τοὺς ἑξῆς ἐγγεγραμμένους δύο ἄνδρας, ὄντας εὐπόρους καὶ ἐπιτηδείους εἰς τὴν κωμαρχίαν, οὓς καὶ ἐγγυώμεθα καὶ παραστήσομεν ἀμέμπτως …… […]μει καὶ ἐπερωτηθέντες ὡμολογήσαμεν. εἰσὶ δέ·[…] […]…ρος […]πατρος ὑπ…