List of Names
List of names, perhaps of liturgical workers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42413
List of names, perhaps of liturgical workers TM 42413probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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A short ostracon listing five men's names: Ptolemaios son of Demetrios, Ptollas son of Sarapion, Melas, Aion and Kastor. It probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum and dates to the early 4th century AD; the men may have been workers assigned to a compulsory public service.
In English machine translation
Ptolemaios son of Demetrios and
Ptollas son of Sarapion
Melas and Aion and
Kastor
The list gives no purpose; the suggestion that these were liturgical workers, men doing compulsory public service, is a guess from the catalogue description.
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.1.628
Πτολεμαῖος Δημητρίου καὶ Πτολλᾶς Σαραπίωνος Μέλας καὶ Ἀϊῶν καὶ Κάστωρ