A village scribe of Heroonpolis and Thaubasthis nominates Anthakis son of Phimenis, a man of means, to supervise public and imperial-estate land, replacing a man who had fled. The nomination is addressed to the strategos of the Arabian nome through the royal scribe, and is dated 16 January 184.
In English machine translation
To Ammonios, strategos of the Arabian (nome),
through Sarapion also called Sarapammon, royal scribe, who is also acting as deputy for the strategia of the same nome,
from Sarapion, village scribe of Heroonpolis and Thaubasthis. Being asked by you for a name for the supervision of public and estate (ousiac) land around the village of …tario(?) in place of Phabalos, his mother being Tkollauthis, from Heroonpolis, residing in Kaine, who has been reported to have fled, I give the person written below, who is well-to-do and suitable, at my own risk. He is:
Anthakis son of Phimenis, his mother being Taphiomis, from Thaubasthis, aged 35, having property in house plots worth 800 drachmas.
Year 24 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus, Tybi 20.
I, Sarapion, village scribe, have submitted (this).
Supervision of land was a compulsory public service (liturgy); the village scribe guarantees the nominee at his own risk. The village name in line 8 is only partly legible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Substitute Nomination to a Liturgy). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.