Court minutes before the archidikastes: adjournment of a case against absent opponents TM 11186Tebtynis (Arsinoites) (?)ca. 144

[...] [...] Antonius Dionysios, the priest and chief judge (archidikastes), said: "Petition me again before the tribunal [...]; if these men, when summoned, do not obey, I will permit you to sail back up [...]" [...] with the usual assessors sitting in council [...] ... Claudius Heliodoros, Diogenes [...] [...] said: "Recently I approached you, showing that I had given a written undertaking to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome to come [...] to Alexandria, and when I approached you within the appointed time, and my opponents Sarapion and Neilos did not appear, you ordered me to give a written undertaking to remain for 30 days until they should appear. But since they did not appear [...] when the 30 days were completed, and you ordered me [...] to petition you so that you might summon them by herald [...] ... appearing (?), that I be permitted [...], and that it be written also to the strategos to send them after the harvest of the crops [...] ... the things contained in the [...]" [...] the priest and chief judge: "I have ordered [...] Sarapion [...]" [...]