Minutes or memoranda of a session of the town council of Oxyrhynchus, listing the items discussed and the councillors who proposed them. Topics include inviting an official to a festival, appointing gymnasiarchs, an agonothetes and a kosmetes, priests' requests, confiscated property and civic revenue, and preparations for a visit of the emperor and the prefect.
In English machine translation
Proposer […]. Teiron also called Apollonios, councillor, proposed […]
Concerning the election (of persons) to invite the strategos (?) of the epistrategos to the festival. […]
Concerning the provision of advance payments from the councillors' (funds?) for the districts […] [proposed]
Proposer: Septimius Horion also called Diogenes.
Concerning the appointment of an agonothetes from among those nominated to magistracies. […]
Concerning the summons to serve as gymnasiarch on Pharmouthi 29 […] [of …] and Herakleides, 1 1/2 days, and the heirs […] [1/2, Pachon] […] son of Dionysios; 8, Hierax son of Hermias; 9, H[…]; [10, Helio]doros; 11, 12, Dorion also called Ploutarchos. […]
Concerning the postponement to the next council meeting of the requests made by the priests. […]
[Concerning] the request of Didymos also called Eudaimon and […] [that in place] of the man nominated who did not share in the liturgy, [there be summoned Hera]kleon and Serenos, landowners at Sesphtha […] and Hermophilos and Onnophris from the reserve (?) […] now priest and those nominated with him […] [that] they [conduct] the festival, and the election of […] [Serenos] on condition that Herakleon himself present […]
[Concerning the] election of a kosmetes for days in place of Silvanus Aneiketos […]
[Concerning the] […] of the decision of Aemilianus Asklepiades […] [Chairemo]n, and the nomination of the son of Abaskantos [on condition that] […] the legal adviser Chairemon present […]
[Concerning] […] [of the] confiscated (properties) and the civic revenue […] be arranged at the next council meeting and […] of Apollon also called Neilos, gymnasiarch […] Ptolemeinos, exegetes, on other days […]
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[Concerning] […] and of the council, and because the festival is a public one […]
[Concerning] receiving a summons from the procurator.
[Concerning the visit] of the Augustus and of Publius the prefect and […]
The text is a list of agenda headings, each beginning 'concerning'; many are broken at the end. The second line's reference to the epistrategos is ambiguous, and the visiting emperor and prefect Publius are not further identified.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memoranda of Proceedings 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.