One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33427

Fragment of a petition concerning a liturgy assigned by lot TM 33427unbekanntIV - V

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Fragment of a request, probably a petition addressed to a high official styled "Your Serenity", asking that the exactor (tax official) arrange something concerning a liturgy assigned by lot. It dates to the 4th or 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] (your) Serenity […] […] in accordance (with this?) we ask that, by the provision of the exactor, […] […] of the liturgy according to the lot, if […] approve (?) […] [… 1 line lost …]

"Serenity" (galenotes) is an honorific form of address for high officials in late antiquity. The exactor was a late Roman official responsible for tax collection; a liturgy was a compulsory public service.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as p.fuad.i.univ.App_II_320). 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.fuad.i.univ.App_II_320

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV - V

[…]γαληνότης …… […] κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν ἀξιοῦμεν προνοίᾳ τοῦ ἐξάκτορος […]θεξ[…]ν…της λειτουργίας κατὰ τὸν κλῆρον εἰ δοκιμ[…] [… 1 line lost …]