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. . . At the session held in the synagogue To Demetrios of the first friends and the door-keepers (?) and the ushers and the chief officals. . . of Kamax . . . secretary . . . . . . to the association . . . with . . . and has been incorporated . . . on the condition that . . . association . . . the times . . . every year . . . the corporation of . . . taphiastai . . . future new . . . the syntaphiastes . . . whom it concerns . . . to the secretary according . . . the association (CPJ 1.138; I BCE, Egypt).

This papyrus, while fragmentary, appears to be the minutes of a Jewish burial society held inside a synagogue in Egypt. The document suggests that various Jewish guilds used synagogues as meeting places for official business.