List of village officials with their posts TM 27201unbekanntspätes II - frühes III

Fragment of a list of village officials, naming men under their posts: chief of police, officer in charge of the peace, elders, and guards who also serve as field guards. Each is identified by father's and mother's names. It dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

The archephodos was a village police chief, and the officer "in charge of the peace" (epi tes eirenes) a local security official; neither has an exact English equivalent. One elder's name was deleted by the scribe.

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