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Fragment of a record of legal proceedings, apparently before the prefect of Egypt, concerning someone notorious for crimes who was arrested and then released. An eirenarch (local police official) is blamed for failing to prevent this, and someone is reproached for not producing a person or thing within a thirty-day deadline.
The eirenarch was a local official responsible for keeping the peace and arresting offenders. The catalogue tentatively classes the text as memoranda, but the dialogue with the prefect suggests minutes of a hearing.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memoranda?). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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