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Nomination of sitologoi for the village of Prektis TM 20214Prektis (Hermopolites)Anfang 340
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Nomination submitted to Aurelius Asklepiades, praepositus of the 15th pagus of the Hermopolite nome, by the outgoing sitologoi, the ephoros and the komarchs of the village of Prektis. They put forward new sitologoi (grain collectors) whom they declare wealthy and suitable for the liturgy. The list of names itself is lost.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Asklepiades, praepositus of the 15th pagus of the Hermopolite nome,
from the Aurelii Kornelios son of Kastor and Poimen son of Psonsnaus and Polys son of Karas and Silvanus son of Pechonsis and all the sitologoi of the 13th indiction, and Horos son of Ammonianos, ephoros, and Horos son of Kastor and Kornelios son of Paesis, komarchs, all from the village of Prektis in the same nome, greetings. We submit and nominate the sitologoi of our village listed below, who are well-off and suitable, able to carry out the liturgy entrusted to them
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The sitologia was a compulsory public service (liturgy) of collecting and storing state grain; nominators guaranteed the means of those they named. The text breaks off before the list of nominees.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Persons Qualified for the Sitologia). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.preis.2ed.19
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ πραιποσίτῳ ιε πάγου νομοῦ Ἑρμουπολίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Κορνηλίου Κάστορος καὶ Ποιμένος Ψονσναῦτος καὶ Πόλυος Καρᾶτος καὶ Σιλβανοῦ Πεχώνσιος καὶ πάντων σιτολόγων ιγ ἰνδικτίωνος καὶ Ὥρου Ἀμμωνιανοῦ ἐφόρου καὶ Ὥρου Κάστορος καὶ Κορνηλίου Παήσιος κωμάρχων τῶν πάντων …