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Fragment of a document mentioning an eklogistes and a liturgy TM 24948unbekanntEnde I

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A small fragment of a Greek document from Roman Egypt, of the late 1st century AD. The surviving phrases mention people who made a statement, an eklogistes (an accounting official), villages and a liturgy (compulsory public service), suggesting an official or petition-like context.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] (?) […] […] for those who said […] […]-emon (?) […] […] of the eklogistes (?) […] […] clearly showed (?) […] […] other […] […] villages, those also […] […] liturgy […] […] knows (?) […] [… lines lost …]

The eklogistes was a financial official who audited tax accounts; a liturgy was an unpaid compulsory public service imposed on qualified individuals.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di documento). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.genova.2.73

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende I

[… ? lines lost …] […]αταξι…[…] […]ν τοὺς γὰρ εἴποντας[…] […]ήμωνος στολ[…] […]ου ἐγλογειστοῦ …[…] […]φανερῶς ἀπεδε…[…] […]…ιμενων αλλο…[…] […]ς κώμας τὰς καὶ γ[…] […] λειτουργίαν με[…] […]…[…]…τιν οιδ[…] [… ? lines lost …]