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Petition to the prefect against an improper summons TM 12430Tebtynis (Arsinoites)135

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Petition from Kronion son of Kronion of Tebtynis to the prefect of Egypt, Marcus Petronius Mamertinus. Kronion complains that Sabinus alias Ninnos served him a summons to appear before the prefect's tribunal without any real claim against him; having appeared, he asks for a judge to be assigned and to be cleared of liability for the improper summons. Dated AD 135.

In English machine translation

To Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, prefect of Egypt, from Kronion son of Kronion, of those from the village of Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Sabinus also called Ninnos, son of Ptolemaios, from the same village, although he has no matter whatsoever against me, […] served on me a summons memorandum (diastolikon) that I should appear before your most sacred tribunal. Having come in accordance with the summons, I ask, if it please you, to give me a judge against him, and further that I be held free of liability with respect to the summons improperly served on me in the locality, so that I may have received your benefaction. Farewell.

A diastolikon hypomnema was a formal memorandum serving notice on an opponent to appear in court; it has no exact English equivalent. One line before the summons clause is illegible, apparently a false start repeated in the next line.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione al prefetto). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.mil.vogl.6.265

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 135 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Μάρκωι Πετρωνίωι Μαμερτείνωι ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Κρονίωνος τοῦ Κρονίωνος τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Τεπτυνεως τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. Σαβεῖνος ὁ καὶ Νίννος Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης, πρᾶγμα τοῦ καθόλου πρὸς ἐμὲ μὴ ἔχων, […]…δωκ… μετέδωκε μοι διαστολικὸν ὑπόμνημα ὅπω…