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Minutes of a hearing before the strategos on guardianship accounts TM 21828Oxyrhynchosca. 129

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Extract from the minutes of a hearing before Asklepiades, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, around AD 129. The strategos orders that the accounts of an estate under guardianship be filed before he decides on maintenance allowances; Heradion promises to file them and asks that Agathinos be made to file them jointly.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] [verso] […] has not yet been filed. Asklepiades the strategos, having considered, said: "It seems necessary that the accounts first be filed, so that it may be known what was left, what has accrued as surplus, and what has been paid off in debts. For then I shall also decide about the allowances for maintenance, and if anything follows from this, it will be judged." Heradion said: "I shall file the accounts at once. It is not through any fault of mine that they were not filed. But Agathinos too must join in filing them, until the trial neither taking up the office of guardian (?) nor Agathinos being detained (?)." The strategos ordered that the whole be entered in the record. I have read it.

The text before the verso is lost and Heradion's final request is badly damaged, so its exact sense is uncertain. Choregiai here means allowances for the maintenance of a ward rather than public liturgies.

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 a Trial). 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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p.oxy.12.1420

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 129 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] [… ? lines lost …] [v] οὐδέπω κατακεχώρισται. Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ στρατηγὸς σκεψάμενος εἶπεν· ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι δοκεῖ πρότερον τοὺς λόγους καταχωρισθῆναι, ἵνα γνωσθη?ͅ τίνα μέν ἐστιν τὰ καταλειφθέντα, τίνα δὲ τὰ περιγεγονότα, καὶ τίνα τὰ χρεολυτηθέντα. τότε γὰρ καὶ περὶ τῶν χορηγιῶν …