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A guard (phylakites) of the village of Tilothis acknowledges to the agent of the district scribe that he has taken custody of Petoys, a village scribe, and undertakes to produce him before the royal scribe Dionysios in the month of Mecheir or else pay whatever is claimed against him. Written in the Herakleopolite nome in March 158 BC.
The scribe first wrote the village name Tilothis for the village scribe's village and then deleted it; the day in Mecheir for the appearance was left blank. Topogrammateus (district scribe) and basilikos grammateus (royal scribe) are Ptolemaic administrative offices.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gestellungsbürgschaft eines Phylakiten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Ἰναρῶς φυλακίτης Τιλώθεως Πτολεµαίωι τῷ παρ’ Ὥρου τοῦ τοπογραµµατέως χαίρειν. παρείληφα παρὰ σοῦ Πετῶυν κωµογραµµατέα Ταγχάεως, ὃν καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω ἐπὶ Διονύσιον τὸν βασιλικὸν γραµµατέα τῆι τοῦ Μεχείρ, ἢ ἀποτείσω πάντα τὰ ἐπικληθησόµεν’ αὐτῶι. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους κγ Μεχεὶρ … [v] ἐγ…
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