Nomination of a substitute for the donkey-transport liturgy TM 18237Kynopolites198 - 209

A nomination submitted to Serenus, strategos of the Kynopolite nome, by Psenatymis and other village elders acting also as village scribes. They propose Pekysis son of Totoeus, aged about 61, to perform the donkey-transport liturgy in place of a man who had fled. It dates to the joint reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 198-209).

In English machine translation

The onelasia was a compulsory public service (liturgy) of transport by donkey; nominators guaranteed the candidate's suitability at their own risk. The property statement is damaged and its exact amount uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ersatzmeldung für die Liturgie der ὀνηλασία). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.