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Council of Oxyrhynchus assigns duties to the exegetes Ptolemeinos alias Sarmates TM 20354Oxyrhynchos

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Letter from the town council of Oxyrhynchus, acting through its president Aurelius Cornelianus, informing the exegetes Ptolemeinos alias Sarmates that he has been chosen to serve for a period in the month Epeiph, with the costs met from the common fund of the magistrates' order. It is dated by the consulship of the Caesars Constantius and Maximianus (Galerius).

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus, the most illustrious Caesars. The most excellent council of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Aurelius Cornelianus, vir perfectissimus, prytanis in office, to Ptolemeinos also called Sarmates, exegetes, dearest one, greetings. An exegetes being required for the [...] of Epeiph up to the 17th, it was resolved that you should take charge, and that the expenses should be paid from the common fund of the members of the order; and so that you may know this, it is sent to you in writing, dearest one. We pray for your health, dearest one.

The word describing the occasion for which an exegetes was needed is damaged, so the exact duty (perhaps days of a festival or service) is uncertain. The 'order' (tagma) is the body of town magistrates sharing the cost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apportionment of Duties to an Exegetes). 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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p.oxy.6.891

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων. Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης πόλεως ἡ κρατίστη βουλὴ διʼ Αὐρηλίου Κορνηλιανοῦ διασημοτάτου ἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως Πτολεμείνῳ τῷ καὶ Σαρμάτῃ ἐξηγητῇ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἐξηγητοῦ ζητουμένου εἰς …