A nomination submitted to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome by the tesserarius and komarchs of the village of Posompous, naming four villagers as sitologoi (grain collectors) for private land for the coming first indiction. The officials guarantee the nominees' performance. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 342.
In English machine translation
[recto]
In the consulship of our masters Constantius for the 3rd time and Constans for the 2nd time, Augusti.
To Claudius Herakleios son of Herakleios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from the Aurelii Paulos son of Pathatres, tesserarius, and Horos son of Horos and Kames son of Horion, komarchs of the whole village of Posompous in the 5th pagus. We give and nominate, at our own risk, for the sitologia of our village, of the private-land category, for the produce of the coming 1st indiction, the persons written below, being men of means and suitable for the service, whom we also guarantee of our own free will to perform the service blamelessly. They are:
Aurelii
Kephalas son of Psenamounis
Herakleides son of Psenamounis
Dionysios son of Paeias
[…]es son of Paeias
all being from the same village, present and consenting.
We, Aurelii Paulos and Kames and Horos, have submitted this. I, Aurelius Papnoutis son of Panosneus, wrote on their behalf, as they do not know letters (?).
[verso]
Posompous
Sitologoi were liturgical officials responsible for collecting and storing grain taxes; the 'private canon' refers to the tax quota on privately held land. The final word of the subscription is damaged, and the 'do not know letters' reading is a conventional guess.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nomination of Sitologi). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.