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Concluding lines of a document concerning liturgies assigned by tribes TM 21533Oxyrhynchites (?)19. Juni 309

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End of an official document concerning the allocation of compulsory public services (liturgies) among the tribes of a city, apparently ordering that each liturgy be performed so that the quota is filled. It is dated by consuls to 19 June 309, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] of the tribes, from the nomination […] having been filled up from the […] to perform each of the liturgies, so that it may be completed. In the consulship of our masters Valerius Licinianus Licinius Augustus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus, son of emperors, 13 days before the Kalends of July.

Liturgies were compulsory public services imposed on qualified citizens, here apparently allotted by the city's tribes (phylai). The consular date of Licinius and Constantine corresponds to 19 June 309.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Concerning Liturgies). 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 · 19. Juni 309 · Oxyrhynchites (?)

[… ? lines lost …] φυλῶν ἐκ τῆς ὀνομασίας[…] ἀναπληρωθεισῶν ἀπὸ τῆς με…[…] λειτουργεῖν ἕκαστα τῶν λειτουργημάτων, ἵνα πληρωθῇ. ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Οὐαλερίου Λικιννιανοῦ Λικιννίου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Φλαουίου Οὐαλερίου Κωνσταντίνου υἱοῦ βασιλέων πρὸ ιγ καλανδῶν Ἰουλίων.