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Notice summoning an extraordinary council meeting to appoint overseers of army supplies TM 21822Oxyrhynchos

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Public notice from Aurelius Eudaimon also called Helladios, prytanis of the council of Oxyrhynchus, summoning the councillors to an extraordinary meeting that same day. The single item of business is the election of overseers for transporting provisions for the soldiers, urged by letters of the dioiketes Aurelius Proteas and of Ammonios, as the ships were already waiting.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Eudaimon also called Helladios, former euthenarch, kosmetes, exegetes, hypomnematographos, councillor of the most illustrious city of the Alexandrians, ex-gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites. The transport of the provisions for the most noble soldiers admits not even a brief postponement, and for this reason, since letters of his excellency the dioiketes Aurelius Proteas and also of his excellency Ammonios are pressing us on this matter, and since the boats that are to receive the goods are already lying at anchor, it has become necessary to convene an extraordinary meeting of the council for the nomination of overseers, so that, with deliberation proposed on this single item of business, the liturgies may be carried out as quickly as possible. So that all the councillors, knowing this, may attend willingly on this present day, which is the 15th, the letters are publicly displayed. And I thought it proper that you should know through this notice that we have instructed you, being aware of what has been ordered, to assemble promptly, no other business being before the present session, and to vote on the elections of the liturgists. [Year 2 …] 15.

The prytanis was the presiding officer of the city council; the 'liturgies' were compulsory public services imposed on wealthy citizens. The document dates to the later 3rd century AD, but the regnal year at the end is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice of a Special Meeting of the Senate). 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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