p.brem.76
[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] Πλουτίων ῥήτωρ εἶπεν·[…] […]θεῖναι πατὴρ τούτου τετελεύτηκεν […] […]ὑπὸ τοῦ τῆς πόλεως ἐξηγητοῦ καθίστανται ἐπίτροποι[…] […] ἑτέρου φροντίσῃ τελευτησα…[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19661
Fragment of court minutes concerning appointment of guardians TM 19661Hermopolis (?)113 - 120
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A fragment of the minutes of a court hearing in which the advocate Ploution argues a case about a person whose father has died, noting that guardians are appointed by the city's exegetes. It dates to AD 113-120, probably from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
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Ploution, advocate, said: […]
[…] to appoint (?) […] the father of this one has died […]
[…] guardians are appointed by the exegetes of the city […]
[…] of another, he should take care […] having died […]
The exegetes were municipal magistrates who, among other duties, appointed guardians for orphaned minors. The record describes the text as a fragment of official minutes (hypomnematismos).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines ὑπομνηματισμός). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.