The end of a deposition
End of a deposition (ekmarturion), c.f. 67087 and 67088. At the foot there is the signature by Fl. Paulos, followed, after a blank space, by the date. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
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End of a deposition issued by the defensor Flavius Paulos TM 18947Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 525
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The closing lines of a sworn deposition (ekmarturion), signed by Flavius Paulos, defensor of the Antaiopolite city, who certifies that he issued it. It is dated by the consulship of Philoxenos to 30 October 525 and comes from Aphrodito, part of the archive of Dioskoros.
In English machine translation
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I, Flavius Paulos, defensor of the Antaiopolite (city), have issued the deposition as stated above.
[☧ In the consul]ship of Flavius Philoxenos, the most glorious, Hathyr 3, indiction 4.
An ekmarturion was a formal record of testimony taken before an official, here the ekdikos (defensor civitatis), a municipal magistrate. The main body of the deposition is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fin d’un ἐκμαρτύριον). 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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[… ? lines lost …] Φλάυιος Παῦλος ἔκδικος τῆς Ἀνταιοπολιτῶν ἐκδέδωκα τὸ ἐκμαρτύριον ὡς πρόκειται. ☧ ὑπατείας Φλαυίου Φιλοξένου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου Ἁθὺρ γ ἰνδικτίονος δ.