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A nomination to a liturgy addressed to Flavius Leukadios, logistes (curator) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, by Aurelius Eustochios, a systates (ward official) of Oxyrhynchus. He puts forward Aurelius Gerontios son of Syros as suitable for service on a public flat-bottomed cargo boat of 500 artabas capacity connected with Alexandria. Dated 9 February 327.
A systates was a local official responsible for nominating citizens to compulsory public services (liturgies). A platypegion was a flat-bottomed river barge, here used in state transport.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Κωνσταντίου καὶ Οὐαλερίου Μαξίμου τῶν λαμπροτάτων ἐπάρχων, Μεχεὶρ ιε. ΦλαουίῳΛευκαδίῳ Λευκαδίου λογιστῇ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Εὐστοχίου Κοπρέως συστάτου τῆςλαμπρᾶς καὶλαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως. δίδωμι εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν δημοσίου πλατυπηγείου ἀγωγῆς ἀρταβῶν φ…
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