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Fragment of minutes of a city council meeting TM 28713Oxyrhynchos (?)III
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Fragment of minutes of a city council meeting, probably at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. Speakers include Sarapion, who had twice served as prytanis (council president), another former prytanis, one Apion, and the presiding prytanis, but the substance of the discussion is lost.
In English machine translation
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[...] Sarapion [...]
[...] and search (?) [...]
[...] by [...]
[...] together with the [...]
[...]
Sarapion, twice prytanis, [...]
said: "All these [...]"
[...] former prytanis said: "To [...]
[...] therefore he did not cease [...] is set out below (?)." Apion [...]
The prytanis said [...]
this to you the [...]
The prytanis was the president of the town council in Roman Egypt; there is no exact English equivalent. The provenance is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proceedings of a City Council). 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.harr.3.260
[… ? lines lost …] […] Σαραπίων […] […]καὶ ἐραυ[…] […]υτοι ὑπ…[…] […]ος ἅμα τῇ […] …οα…σι…α…[…] Σαραπίων δὶς πρυτανεύσας […] εἶπεν· οὗτοι πάντες α…[…] πρυτανεύσας εἶπεν· εἰς[…] οὖν οὐκ ἀνεπαύσατο τ…[…]σατο ὑπόκειται· Ἀπίων […] ὁ πρύτανις εἶπεν […]…[…] τοῦτό σοι ἡ ἐξστα[…]