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Application to the strategos to serve a claim for deposits of grain on a debtor's heir TM 21873Oxyrhynchos29. Juni 136

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An application by Heraklas alias Herakleides of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Apollinarios, enclosing a copy of a petition he had submitted to the archidikastes in Alexandria. He claims repayment of deposits of barley and wheat made under two bonds of Hadrian's 12th year from the heir of the late debtor Diogenes, and asks that the claim be formally served on the heir.

In English machine translation

To Apollinarios, strategos, from Heraklas also called Herakleides, son of Heraklas, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. A copy of the document which I obtained from the record office is set out below. Demetrios also called Domitios, who is administering the office of the archidikastes, to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greeting. Order a copy of the memorandum submitted to be served, as set out below. Farewell. Year 20 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Epeiph 5. To Ailianos, son of Euphranor, former exegetes, neokoros of the great Sarapis, former prefect of the second cavalry cohort of Commagenians, priest, archidikastes and in charge of the chrematistai and the other courts, through Demetrios also called Domitios, exegetes designate, administering the office of the archidikastes, from Heraklas also called Herakleides, son of Heraklas, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. There being owed to me by Diogenes son of Herakleides, grandson of Mingion, from the same city, under two written security bonds made in the twelfth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, the first in Thoth, for a deposit of barley by the public half-artaba measure of 24 1/2 artabas and 9 choinikes, and under the second, in Phamenoth of the same twelfth year, likewise for a deposit of wheat by the public half-artaba measure of 24 artabas and 3 choinikes, all of which he agreed to repay me whenever I should choose, and further the charges for the sales tax and the registrations; and since the periods have passed and no repayment has been made, and Diogenes has died leaving as heir his son Hem[…] […], I request that you order a letter be written to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome to serve a copy of this on Hem[…] […] […] […] […] […] […] [Fragment 1] […] […] […] […] […] [Fragment 2] […] […] […] […]

The katalogeion was the record office of the archidikastes in Alexandria, through which private bonds were registered and enforced. The heir's name survives only as Hem[…].

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application concerning Deposits). 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 · 29. Juni 136 · Oxyrhynchos

[ctr] Ἀπολιναρίωι στρατηγῷ παρὰ Ἡρακλᾶτος τοῦ καὶ Ἡρακλείδου Ἡρακλᾶτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. οὗ ἐπόρισα ἐκ τοῦ καταλογείου χρηματισμοῦ ἀντίγραφον ὑπόκειται. Δημήτριος ὁ καὶ Δομίτιος ὁ διέπων τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχιδικαστείαν τῷ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχείτου στρατηγῷ χαίρειν. τοῦ δεδομένου ὑπομνήματο…