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Report of legal proceedings concerning free status and census registration TM 21529unbekannt

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Fragmentary report of legal proceedings before or involving the epistrategos Claudius, with advocates (one named Alexandros) arguing a case about the status of free persons and slaves, manumission, children, and census registrations. It cites a petition with a subscription instructing the party to apply to the epistrategos, and refers to years of the deified Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] … not being changed … […] […] the most excellent epistrategos Claudius […] […] … acting affectionately … […] […] … Alexandros, advocate, replied […] […] … and he wishes our […] […] having put forward charges, appeared […] […] … brother Neilos; on the one hand […] […] alteration of the writing […] […] of free persons together with slaves […] […] manumission, I shall submit […] […] the children who will be […] […] the wife to come together […] […] is registered of you (?) […] [… lines lost …] [verso] […] year 8, Pharmouthi […] and registering […] […] Antoninus and in year 14 of the deified Aelius Antoninus […] […] the advocate […] having stood up … […] […] with a subscription reading as follows: Year […] […] Phamenoth 12. Apply to the most excellent epistrategos […] […] of those in year 7 of the deified Aelius Antoninus […] […] advocate said: of the minutes […] […] is, of which they submitted the petition […] […] said: and from the house-by-house census returns […] […] …rion registered as sons in […] […] … having obeyed, and from the […] […] … […] [… lines lost …]

References to the deified Aelius Antoninus place the document after AD 161. The rhetor is a court advocate; the epistrategos was a senior regional Roman official in Egypt.

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 Legal 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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