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Letter of the Oxyrhynchite council to the strategos about elected embolarchs TM 21322Oxyrhynchos

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Letter from the town council of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Aurelius Dioskourides about two men, Severus and Agathinos, elected by the council as embolarchs (officials overseeing the shipment of grain) on the order of the catholicus Aurelius Sarapion. The council asks that they not be diverted from this duty until the procurator arrives.

In English machine translation

The most excellent council of the Oxyrhynchites, of the illustrious and most illustrious city, through […] also called Serenos, former gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office, to Aurelius Dioskourides […] strategos, dearest, greetings. In accordance with the order of my lord the most eminent catholicus Aurelius Sarapion, following a letter of my lord the procurator, on the 8th day before the Kalends of June there were elected by the body of the council chamber to the office of embolarch Severus son of Heraiskos and Agathinos son of Agathinos, on account of their trustworthiness and fairness; but since I learned, having arrived, and on the 17th day before the Kalends of July by a document […] I come to the […] concerning those elected […] for this very reason […] so that to the same Sarapion […] is attached suitably […] you should in no way take them away from the duty of the embolarchy, which is necessary, until the arrival of my lord the procurator, so that the […] of the coming […] of the future […] […]

The embolarchy was a liturgy responsible for the loading and dispatch of tax grain; the catholicus was the chief financial official of Egypt. The dates are given in Roman form: 25 May and 15 June.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of the Senate to the Strategus). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

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