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Summons ordering persons from Aphrodite to appear before the governor's court TM 19698Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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An official summons from the office of the governor of the Thebaid, Flavius Menas, ordering that Apollos, headman of the village of Aphrodite, and a woman named Mariam be produced in court and handed over to the officer Megas. Megas signs that he has delivered the copy; the verso names Apollos son of Dioskoros as addressee.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… lines lost …] in the court […] and ordered by the authority of my lord the most illustrious tribune of the praetorian notaries of the sacred palace and governor of the province of the Thebaid, Flavius Menas Justinianus Demosthenes Ioannes Thomas, make haste to be present, receiving the letter of the office, to produce and hand over to Megas, singularis, who has also been sent for this purpose, so that the orders may be carried out. They are: Apollos, protokometes, from Aphrodite; Mariam daughter of Taristos (?), from the same. I, Flavius Megas, singularis, have delivered the copy. [verso] […] Apollos son of Dioskoros, through Megas, singularis […]

A singularis was a staff officer of the governor's office used as a court bailiff or messenger. Apollos son of Dioskoros is the father of the well-known Dioskoros of Aphrodite, which places the text in the 6th century AD.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to send persons to court). 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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