A fragment of Greek court proceedings from Roman Egypt, mentioning people who were denounced, failure to register property, unlawful holdings, an estate formerly of Julius Theon, the prefect, and sums of drachmas. Persons named include Hephaistion, Neilos a landowner, and Harpokration.
In English machine translation
[… 1 line lost …]
[…] 5,540 drachmas […]
[…] of the most splendid city […]
[…] those denounced by the […]
[…] not to have been registered […]
[…] account, among the unlawfully […]
[…] in the items (?) formerly of Julius Theon […]
[…] of those there accused by […]
[…] on the grounds that it was not proper […]
[…] by Hephaistion […]
[…] to remain […]
[…] Neilos, landowner in […]
[…]onios, accuser (?), on the grounds that […]
[…] drachmas to be […]
[…] of the prefect, on the grounds that […]
[…] not residing (?) […]
[…] to Harpokration […]
The phrase about unlawful items and an estate formerly of Julius Theon may refer to the Idios Logos (special account) handling confiscated or unregistered property, but the context is too broken to be sure. Only the right or middle part of each line survives.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prozeßakten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.