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Petition of a widow against relatives contesting her son's legitimacy TM 11252Arsinoites

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Fragmentary petition by the widow of Herennius Valerius to a high official, complaining that relatives through the female line, the Antonii including Diogenes, are pursuing her and her son despite earlier rulings, including a referral to the iuridicus Patrophilos and a charge of illegitimacy. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in Roman Egypt.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] [...] under (?) [...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] [...] to be [...] [...] ... [...] [...] of Lucius Herennius [...] [...] ... [...] [...] Iunius, the agoranomos in office [...] [...] but daring everything ... [...] [...] of my late husband Herennius Valerius [...] [...] you subscribed to him: "Apply to Patrophilos, the most excellent iuridicus" [...] [...] on the 27th of Thoth of the 11th year. Admitting on the one hand [...] [...] related through the female line, Antonius Diogenes and [...] [...] ... and you subscribed, lord, "if they bring a charge of illegitimacy." [...] [...] I ask, if it please your fortune, now at last to take pity [...] [...] of the subscription against the things judged by the most excellent [...] [...] they are proceeding against me together with my son, as you see, lord, [...] [...] the iuridicus, having examined the case, established that this ought to be valid. [...]

The iuridicus (Greek dikaiodotes) was a senior Roman judicial official in Alexandria; the agoranomos was a notary-registrar of contracts. The charge of illegitimacy (notheia) likely concerned the son's right to inherit.

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

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