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A memorandum from Pekyllos, evidently an official, to the village heads (komarchs) of Dositheou, accusing them of hiding men wanted for compulsory public service. He orders them to hand over the wanted man to the komarch of Psobthis and the others too, or else perform the service themselves, and notes he has so far refrained from reporting them to the epistrategos. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD.
A liturgy (leitourgia) was a compulsory public service imposed on qualified villagers; komarchs were responsible for nominating and producing those liable. The scribe deleted one form of 'I have signed' and replaced it with another.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum to Comarchs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Πεκύλλου κωμάρχαις Δωσιθέου. πολλοὶ λειτουργοὶ ζητούμενοι κλέπτονται ὑφʼ ὑμῶν καὶ εἰς τιμὴν τῆς κώμης ἔτι ἀνέχομαι. φροντίσατε οὖν καὶ τὸν ζητούμενον παραδοῦναι τῷ τῆς Ψώβθεως κωμάρχῃ, μὴ ὑμεῖς τὴν λειτουργίαν ὑποστῆτε. ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους φροντίσατε παραδοῦναι. ὡς γὰρ προε…
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