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Nomination of liturgists by the village heads of Prektis TM 17727Hermopolisca. 340

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A nomination list in which the village heads of Prektis in the Hermopolite nome put forward four men to perform compulsory public services and tax collection for the village, guaranteeing them personally. It dates to around AD 340 and comes from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

From the Aurelii Lysimachos and Choous and […] and […], all from the village of Prektis in the same nome, heads of the same village. We submit and report the persons registered below, who are in agreement with us, to carry out all the public assignments required of the village and the collection of the public taxes, being suitable and fit for each one's service, at the risk of us who have made their nomination. They are: Polys son of Silvanus, through me, Lysimachos Phibis son of Herakles, through me, Choous Kastor son of Polydeukes, through me, […] Sarmates son of Silvanus, through me, […] Whom we guarantee, and we will present them blamelessly, together with us obeying all the assignments required of the village. If any of them deserts and we do not present him, we ourselves will assume responsibility on his behalf, and having been asked the formal question we have agreed. […]

The beginning, including the addressee, and the end are lost; the opening names and much of the guarantee clause are editorial restorations based on parallel nomination documents. The 'proestotes' were village heads responsible for proposing men for liturgies, compulsory public services.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liturgische Vorschlagsliste). 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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cpr.17A.33

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 340 · Hermopolis

παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Λυσιμάχου καὶ Χωοῦτος καὶ[…]καὶ[…]τῶν πάντων ἀπὸ κώμης Πρήκτεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ, προεστώτων τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης. ἀναδίδομεν καὶ εἰσαγγέλλομεν τοὺς ἑξῆς ἐγγεγραμμένους συνπνέοντας ἡμῖν ποιησομένους ἅπαντα τὰ πρὸς τὴν κώμην ζητούμενα δημόσια ἐπιτάγματα καὶ ἀπαίτησιν τῶν δ…