List of persons qualified for office
This papyrus, of which parts of three columns are preserved, is a list of persons with the offices which they had held or were holding and the value of their property.
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List of persons qualified for liturgical office with their property TM 28605H�rit2nd century
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A register of men from the Arsinoite nome eligible for compulsory public service, giving each man's name, origin, assessed property in drachmas and the liturgical offices he had held or currently held, such as overseer of estate land or confiscated property. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Theadelphia.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
⟦Sarapion son of Alkimos son of Harpokration, from the Macedonians, having property of 3,000 drachmas, nominated for the patrol (?) of the metropolis. Deceased.⟧
Sarapion son of Sarapion son of Papos, from Phremei, having property of 1,500 drachmas, of Sebennytos, formerly ⟦now being⟧ overseer of estate (ousiac) property of Sebennytos.
Sarapion son of Zoilos, from the metropolis, landholder at Boubastos, having property of 1,000 drachmas, of Boubastos, formerly ⟦now being⟧ overseer of estate property of Boubastos.
Sarapion son of Theon, from the same metropolis, now at Neilopolis, having property of 1,500 drachmas.
Sisois also called Harpokration, son of Areios, landholder at Psenyris, having property of 1,000 drachmas, of Psenyris, formerly ⟦now being⟧ overseer of estate property of Boubastos.
Sotas son of Diogenes, from the metropolis, landholder at Ibion of the Twenty-five-arourai, having property of 2,000 drachmas, of Ibion of the Twenty-five-arourai, formerly ⟦now being⟧ overseer of the hermeneia, of Halopolia.
Satabous son of Sochotes, called the vegetable-seller, having [property] of 1,000 drachmas, of Karanis, now overseer of confiscated property of Karanis.
[…]
overseer of the record office of the metropolis
overseer of the station of Ptolemais Hormou
Alexandrou, Arsinoe Her[…], Talei, Tamaueos, Philoteris
[column 2]
[…]
collector (?) of Sebennytos
collector (?) of [Ker]kesoucha
nominated for the lot of nomophylax (?)
[…] of Herakleia
harbour guard of Kaine
[verso]
[…]
The poros is the declared property qualifying a man for a liturgy; the first entry is crossed out because the man had died. The meanings of 'hermeneia' and 'plerotes' here are uncertain.
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 Persons qualified for 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.
p.fay.23
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