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List of guards assigned to officials and magistrates TM 28979HermopolisII
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A list of guards (palaiastrophylakes) attached to various officials and magistrates of Hermopolis in the 2nd century AD, giving the number of men assigned to each office, from the strategos and gymnasiarch to the high priests of the imperial cult, with their names.
In English machine translation
⟦List⟧
List of the old-city guards (?) who remain and are in constant attendance.
For the strategos, 4:
Heron son of Dios,
Dioskoros son of Hermaios,
Dioskoros son of Theagenes,
Heras son of Dioskoros.
For the gymnasiarch, 4:
Phibion son of Heron, fellow ephebe,
Achilleus son of Zopyros,
Horion son of Platon,
Achilleus son of Antipatros.
For the exegetes, 2:
Menouthion son of Hermes,
Pinoution son of Diogenes.
For the kosmetes, 2:
Koulas son of Antipatros,
Koulas son of Eutochides.
For the agoranomoi, 1:
Tourbon son of Cornelius.
The one in charge of the grain supply and high priest of the Augusti, 2:
Koulas son of Cornelius,
Hermaios son of Herm[…].
High priest of Hadrian, 1:
Ammonion son of Perikles.
High priest of Faustina, 1:
Dioskoros son of Herakleides.
The other 3 posts are held by minors.
The term palaiastrophylakes is rare and its exact meaning (perhaps guards of the old town or of the palaestra) is uncertain. The final line seems to mean the remaining three magistracies were held by minors, so no guards were listed for them.
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 Guards). 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.amh.2.124
γραφὴ τῶν συνμενόντων καὶ προσκαρτερούντων παλαιαστροφυλάκων. στρατηγῷ δ· Ἥρων Δίου, Διόσκορος Ἑρμαίου, Διόσκορος Θεαγένους, Ἡρᾶς Διοσκόρου. γυμνασιάρχῳ δ· Φιβίων Ἥρωνος συνέφηβος, Ἀχιλλεὺς Ζωπύρου, Ὡρίων Πλάτωνος, Ἀχιλλεὺς Ἀντιπάτρου. ἐξηγητῇ β· Μενουθίων Ἑρμοῦ, Πινουτίων Διογέν…