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Minutes of judicial proceedings before the governor Septimius Eutropius TM 20290Kellis (Oasis Magna)389

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Fragments of the minutes of a court hearing before Septimius Eutropius, governor of the Thebaid, found at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis and dated to AD 389. The surviving words mention extortion with accomplices, a soldier, a child's father, a certain Strategios and a payment of thirty units.

In English machine translation

[Fragment 1] [… lines lost …] […] Septimius Eutropius, vir clarissimus, governor of the Thebaid, said to him: "The […] […] he extorted (?), having accomplices. It has been set down in the earlier […]" […] Septimius Eutropius, vir clarissimus, governor of the Thebaid, [said to him: …] […] […] to him a soldier seized (?) […] […] Septimius Eutropius, vir clarissimus, governor of the Thebaid, said to him: […] […] we have given for the purpose of a lawsuit, but […] […] Septimius Eutropius, [vir clarissimus, governor of the Thebaid, said to him: …] […] [… lines lost …] [Fragment 2] [… lines lost …] […] […] the father of this child […] […] has been thrown into (?) […] […] unless those who […] you […] […] to be thrown […] […] a certain Strategios and other […] […] Strategios […] […] those who petition […] […] himself, went away badly on account of a pretext […] […] And the one represented by counsel […] provided him with a full 30 […] […] assistant in the […] paid down […] […] [… lines lost …]

The framing formulas naming the governor are in Latin, while the speeches are recorded in Greek, as was usual in late Roman court minutes. The verb rendered 'extorted' (eseisen, literally 'shook down') refers to extortion.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Judicial Proceedings). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 389 · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

[Fr1] [… ? lines lost …] […]… Septimius Eutropius vir clarissimus praeses Thebaidos ei dixit: ἡ συνε … […]αδδ ἔσεισεν συνεργοὺς ἔχων· τέτακται ἐν τοῖς προτέροις[…] […]… Septimius Eutropius vir clarissimus praeses Thebaidosei dixit[…] … […] […] πρὸς αὐτὸν κατέλαβεν στρατιώτης[…] […