List of village guards
The list consists of six names of persons who are apparently acting as police guards in the village of Senokomis.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36573
List of village guards of Senokomis TM 36573Sekonomis (Oxy.)Sixth or seventh century CE
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A list of village guards from Senokomis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, headed by Paulos, the chief guard, followed by five other men. A heading for a second village begins at the end, but the rest is lost. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
Village of Senokomis:
Paulos, chief guard
Enoch
Theonas
Apoll[…]
Anoubion
Pekysis
Village of […]
[…]
The prōtophylax was the head of the village guards, a local police official. One catalogue record misspells the village name as Sekonomis.
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 Village 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.leid.inst.1.75
κώμης Σενοκώμεως Παῦλος πρωτοφύλαξ Ἐνώχ Θεωνᾶς Ἀπολλ[…] Ἀνουβίον Πεκύσιος κώμης […]…[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]