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A contract drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in the month Tybi of Hadrian's 19th year (December 134 to January 135), in which Apollonios son of Apollonios, too ill to sail to the prefect's assize for the nome, appoints a representative to plead for him before the prefect Petronius Mamertinus, the epistrategos Gellius Bassus or other judges.
The name of the appointed representative was apparently omitted by the scribe, who wrote 'the' twice in its place. The 'dialogismos' was the prefect's periodic judicial assize (conventus) for the region.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Appointment of a Representative). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους ἐννεακαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Τῦβι ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Διογένους μητρὸς Τανεχωταρίου τῆς καὶ Εὐτέρπης Διογένους ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, ἐν ἀγυιᾷ, οὐ δυνάμενος διʼ ἀσθένειαν…
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