Copy of a nomination for a compulsory public service, posted by the strategos of the Hermopolite nome. The komarchs (village heads) of Ekous nominate a villager aged about 45 with property worth 1,000 drachmas to serve as a guard at the prison in Hermopolis, guaranteeing him collectively, in AD 265.
In English machine translation
148
Flavius Paniskos also called Longos, strategos of the Hermopolite nome. Of the nominations given to me by the komarchs of the village of Ekous and of Temenkyrkis Poimenon and Sinkatape and Timonthis, who submit the persons registered by them for the prison guard service of the jail, copies are posted publicly so that all may know and the nominees may attend to the duties entrusted to them soundly and faithfully, so as to be blamed in nothing. I have signed.
Year 12 of our lord Gallienus Augustus, Pauni 6.
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To Flavius Paniskos also called Longos, strategos of the Hermopolite nome,
from the Aurelii Phibis son of Pemsitis, his mother being Tisois, and Taurinus son of Laitos, his mother being Eus, both komarchs of the village of Ekous. We give and nominate the person written below for the prison guard service of the jail in the metropolis, being well off and suitable, at the risk of ourselves and of all those residing in the same village, under mutual responsibility, for whom we also stand surety.
He is:
[…]s son of Totheus, his mother being Eus, aged about 45, having property of 1,000 drachmas.
Farewell.
Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, [Pauni] 6. We, the aforesaid komarchs, have submitted it. I, Aurelius Hermesion, wrote it.
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The first part is the strategos's notice publishing the nominations; the number 148 at the top is probably a sheet or roll number. Nominations to liturgies were compulsory and the village officials guaranteed the nominee's performance.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nomine ad ufficii liturgici). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.