List of Names
List of names, perhaps of liturgical workers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42387
List of six personal names TM 42387probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing six men, mostly identified by their fathers' names, one of them described as an oil-maker. It probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum and dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD. The purpose of the list is not stated.
In English machine translation
Ptolemaios son of Pankrates
Melas, oil-maker
Sarapion son of Onnophris
Heras son of Artemidoros
Dioskoros son of Tiberinus
Germanus son of Gemellus
The museum description suggests these may have been men performing compulsory public service (liturgical workers), but the text itself does not say so.
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 Names). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.604
Πτολεμαῖος Παγκράτους Μέλας ἐλαιουργός Σαραπίων Ὀννώφρεως Ἡρᾶς Ἀρτεμιδώρου Διόσκορος Τιβερίνου Γερμανὸς Γεμέλλου