In a recent study devoted to “bandi liturgici”, Marco Stroppa provided a welcome survey of the notices by which a strategos gave his approval to the nomination of individuals who took up a liturgy in Roman Egypt. The aim of the present article is not to contradict the views offered by Stroppa, but to add a layer to his analysis of the available corpus: by taking into account the provenance of papyri, it will become possible to identify some specific aspects of the format and layout used to produce the documents pertaining to this procedure, as well as to other stages in the same procedure.