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Application for public registration of a private document of Didymos alias Herakleios TM 21181Oxyrhynchos27. Dez. 209 - 25. Jan. 210

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Fragmentary application from Oxyrhynchus asking that a privately written document, signed by Didymos also called Herakleios, be deposited in the public archives (demosiosis) after payment of the 12-drachma fee to the city, so that it gains the force of a public document. It is dated in Tybi of year 18 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 209/210).

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] the fourth of the […]tion […] And wishing, from the […] not containing the […] we pay to the city the prescribed 12 drachmas and the [amount fixed for the registration in the public archive, we ask that you, taking it up,] signed by him [concerning the …] of Didymos also called Herakleios, register it together [with …] and of this the copy also into the [archive of Nanaion (?)] […] of this a copy to Didymos also called Hera[kleios, so that he may know …] remaining to us the rights from it as from a public document […] [or else] to his heirs if of age, and if they are [minors, to their legal guardians, whose names] will be declared on the spot as is proper. [Year] … of Lucius Septimius Severus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augusti, Choiak. I have signed. This being so, [I ask that the …] be [made] to Didymos also called Herakleios as is proper. Year 18 of the Emperors [Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius] Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus [Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius] Augusti ⟦and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus⟧, Tybi […]

Demosiosis was the procedure by which a private contract was registered in the public archives (here probably the Nanaion at Alexandria, a restoration) to give it public validity. The name of Geta in the date formula has been struck out, an example of his damnatio memoriae after AD 211.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Requête). 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 · 27. Dez. 209 - 25. Jan. 210 · Oxyrhynchos

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