Application from […]apion son of Theon, of Oxyrhynchus, to the deputy strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, quoting a document from the chief judge Aurelius Apollonios also called Dionysios concerning a completed entry into possession of property. It dates to the first year of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus.
In English machine translation
To […], deputy strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from […]apion son of Theon son of Diogenes, his mother being Sarapous, […] of the city. Copy of the instrument of entry into possession (?) which I obtained from the record office: […] Aurelius Apollonios also called Dionysios, priest and chief judge, […] to the strategos (?) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greeting. Of the completed entry into possession, a copy […]
Farewell. Year 1 of Trebonianus Gallus the lord […]
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Embadeia is the legal procedure by which a creditor was formally put into possession of a debtor's property; the katalogeion was the archive of the chief judge (archidikastes) in Alexandria.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for an Order to Possess). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.