Fragment of the minutes of a court hearing from the Arsinoite nome. A party explains a delay, and the judge has two earlier decisions of the strategos Aelius Numisianus, dated year 4 of Antoninus (Pius), read out, then rules that matters stay as they are until the epistrategos decides.
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The judge: "Read the judgments which he says he has." And when they had read two minutes (hypomnematismoi) of Aelius Numisianus, strategos, one dated in year 4 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
Hathyr […], the other in the same year 4, Tybi, Sarapion son of Pammenes, former gymnasiarch of Memphis, the judge said: "Since Aelius Numisianus the strategos wished everything to remain
as it is until the judgment of his excellency the epistrategos, in the keeping of those chosen by common agreement […]"
Year 4 of Antoninus would be AD 140/141 if Antoninus Pius is meant. The role of Sarapion son of Pammenes, former gymnasiarch of Memphis, is unclear because the text breaks around his name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of a Trial). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.