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Opening of a document addressed to the strategos Dioskoros and the royal scribe Harpokration also called Hierax of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by the five elder priests of the temple of Soknopaios at Soknopaiou Nesos. Only the address and the names of the senders survive; the body is lost. It dates to July-August AD 190.
The elder priests (presbyteroi) acted as the governing board of the temple, drawn from its five priestly tribes (phylai). The purpose of the document is lost; such submissions by these priests were often temple returns or declarations to the nome officials.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[1] Διοσκόρῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ Ἁρποκρατίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἱέρακι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ τῆς μερίδος παρὰ Ὀννώφρεως Σαταβοῦτος τοῦ Στοτοήριος καὶ Ἁρπαγάθου Στοτοήτιος τοῦ Ἁρπαγάθου καὶ Στοτοήτιος Πακύσεως τοῦ Σαταβοῦτος τῶν γ πρεσβυτέρων ἱερέων πρώτης φυλῆς καὶ Ἁρπαγ…
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