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Nomination of replacements for two sick elders of Nemerai TM 23653Nemerai (Oxyrhynchites)ca. 160

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A nomination of substitutes for a liturgy: since the two village elders of Nemerai, Pasion and Ammonios, are ill, the writer puts forward four men described as well-off and suitable, listing their ages, origins and property. It dates to about AD 160 from Nemerai in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

In place of Pasion son of Harpokration son of Pasion and Ammonios son of Thonis son of Ammonios, the two elders of Nemerai, who are now afflicted with illness, I give and nominate the persons listed below, who are well-off and suitable. They are: Demas son of Phamounis, mother Charmis, from Pamis, aged 43, possessing house-plots worth 1,000 drachmas; Apollonios son of Apollonios, mother Petiparilimis, from the same village, aged […], possessing house-plots worth 1,000 drachmas; Papontos son of Horos, mother Tasontoous, from Lower Tholthis, residing in Nemerai, aged about 50, possessing at Pamis 1/2 aroura together with house-plots worth 800 drachmas; Harpaesis son of Paninouthes son of Harpalos, mother Penkalosis, from Tholthis […] aged 51, possessing from the […] 1/2 aroura together with house-plots worth 700 drachmas.

The 'elders' (presbyteroi) were village officials serving a compulsory public duty (liturgy); nominees had to meet a property qualification, hence the listed assets.

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 Liturgic Office). 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 · ca. 160 · Nemerai (Oxyrhynchites)

ἀντὶ Πασίωνος Ἁρποκρατίωνος τοῦ Πασίωνος καὶ Ἀμμωνίου Θώνιος τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου, τῶν δύο πρεσβυτέρων Νεμερῶν νυνὶνόσῳ κατασχεθέντων, δίδωμι καὶ εἰσαγγέλλω τὰ ὑπογεγραμμένα εὔπορα καὶ ἐπιτήδεια. ἔστι δέ· Δημᾶς Φαμουνίου μητρὸς Χάρμιτος ἀπὸ Πάμεως ἐτῶν μγ ἔχων οἰκόπεδα δραχμῶν Α Ἀπολλώνι…