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Epistrategos' order on a father of Antinoite children nominated to a liturgy TM 23480Antinoopolis

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Copy of a letter from Aelius Faustinus, epistrategos of the Thebaid, to the strategos of the Lykopolite nome, forwarding the petition of Apollophanes son of Horion. Apollophanes claimed that as a father of Antinoite children, exempt from the poll tax, he had been wrongly nominated to collect fines, and the official orders that, if this is true, someone else be nominated in his place. It is dated in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 159).

In English machine translation

Copy of a letter of the epistrategos of the Thebaid. Aelius Faustinus to the strategos of the Lykopolite nome, greetings. I have noted the petition of Apollophanes son of Horion and ordered it to be sent to you. Since he says that, being himself a father of Antinoite children and not paying the poll tax, he was through ignorance nominated by Xenokrates to the collection of fines, and now, having come to stay […] for the settlement of public dues he has been detained […] in the service: see to it, if these things are so, in accordance with what he cited as having been decided in similar cases, that other names be sent in his place for the service. I pray for your health. Year 22 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pachon 4.

Fathers of Antinoite children enjoyed privileges, including exemption from the poll tax and from liturgies outside Antinoopolis. The 'collection of fines' (praktoreia katakrimaton) was a compulsory public service (liturgy).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Beschwerde eines Vaters von Ἀντινοϊτικοὶ παῖδες). 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 · Antinoopolis

ἀντίγραφον ἐπιστολῆς ἐπιστρατήγου Θηβαίδος. Αἴλιος Φαυστεῖνος στρατηγῷ Λυκοπολίτου χαίρειν. βιβλίδιον Ἀπολλοφάνους Ὡρίωνος σημειωσάμενος πεμφθῆναί σοι ἐκέλευσα. ἐπεὶ οὖν φησιν πατέρα ἑαυτὸν ὄντα παίδων Ἀντινοιτικῶν καὶ οὐ τὰ ἐπικεφάλια τελοῦντα κεκληρῶσθαι κατʼ ἄγνοιαν ὑπὸ Ξεινοκ…