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List of persons with official titles and village elders TM 942790unbekanntVIII

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A fragmentary Coptic list of persons, giving names with their titles or functions, including officials' assistants (taxeotai), chief messengers or police officers (archisymmachoi) and village elders. It dates to the 8th century AD.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] Iohannes the shepherd […] The elders of the village of Thm[…] Lord Isaak the watchman (?) […] Lord Georgios the taxeotes […] The lord Theodoros the taxeotes […] Zacharias the archisymmachos […] Apa Ioannes the archisymmachos […] Lord Iohannes the ka[…] The elders of the village of Pel[…] Mena the archisymmachos […]

A taxeotes was a member of an official's staff; an archisymmachos was a head of the symmachoi, couriers or police agents in late antique and early Islamic Egypt. The reading 'watchman' for ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲏϣⲉ is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Personenverzeichnis). 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.koeln.aegypt.2.47

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[… ? lines lost …] ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲉ ⲡϣⲱⲥ […] ⲛⲉϩⲗⲗⲟ ⲛϯⲙⲉ ⲑⲙ[…] κύριος ⲉⲓⲥⲁⲕ ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲏϣⲉ […] κύριος ⲕⲉⲱⲣⲕⲉ ⲡταξεώτης […] ⲡⲓκύριος ⲑⲏⲟⲇⲣⲉ ⲡταξεώτης […] ⲍⲁⲭⲁⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲡἀρχισύμμαχος […] ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲉⲥ ⲡἀρχισύμμαχος […] κύριος ⲁϩⲁⲛⲛⲉ ⲡⲕⲁ[…] ⲛⲉϩⲗⲗⲟ ⲛϯⲙⲉ ⲛⲡⲉⲗ[…] ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲡἀρχισύμμαχος […]