List of Names
List of names, perhaps of liturgical workers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42400
List of names for the village of Karanis TM 42400probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing men on behalf of the village of Karanis for two regnal years, giving each man's father's name (in one case his mother's). It may record men assigned to compulsory public work, and dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
On behalf of
the village of Karanis
(year) 2(?) … and (year) …
Neilos son of M…
Valerius son of Ptolemaios
Paianes son of Aphelix
Memphis son of Isidoros
Isidoros, mother Oukephel
Demetrios son of Didymos
Peeous son of Ptolemaios
Isidoros son of […]
Ptolemaios […]
The purpose of the list is not stated; the suggestion that these were liturgical workers (men performing compulsory public service) is conjectural. The year numerals in line 3 are only partly legible.
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.1.616
ὑπὲρ κώμης Καρανίδος β… ἔτους καὶ … ἔτους Νεῖλος Μ… Οὐαλέριος Πτολεμαίου Παιάνης Ἀφήλικος Μέμφις Ἰσιδώρου Ἰσίδωρος μητρὸς Οὐκεφελ Δημήτριος Διδύμου Πεηοῦς Πτολεμαίου Ἰσίδωρος […] Πτολεμαιο[…]