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Report of a trial before the prefect Valerius Pompeianus TM 21886Oxyrhynchos288 - 289

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Fragmentary minutes of a hearing before Valerius Pompeianus, prefect of Egypt, in which the advocate Gymnasios speaks in a dispute involving Demetrianos and Phileas and the city administration. The advocate asks that his clients be released from public service (liturgies). Dated to 288-289 AD, from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Year [5] and year 4 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti […] […] of Sarapion, having come forward on level ground (?) […] Gymnasios, advocate, said: "Demetrianos and Phileas […] but the city administration often and small (?) […] an open dispute has arisen against […] Phileas, and again he against them […] of this you must proceed, of the city administration […] a penalty that befell (them) divided many […] and by chance pressing on the same […] the chief judge […] of the acts of violence, Eirenaios […] and from (?) saying […] And what was brought forward was: Phileas there […] to be, mentioning the Zakaones (?) of […] to a citizen of Leontopolis and to Leontopolis in year 8 and from (?) saying […]" Valerius Pompeianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, said: "Whatever they have said to one another and whatever such things […] and […] mentioning things which ought not […]" […] and Didymos. Gymnasios, advocate, said: "He is ready to furnish accounts […]" Valerius Pompeianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, said: "And […] to the one who wrote […] Demetrianos and Phileas this […] therefore, as a consequence (?) of the matter […]" Gymnasios, advocate, said: "[…] some […] we ask that they be released from liturgies […]" Valerius Pompeianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, said: "Of the charges on account of which they ask […] to be released […]"

The double regnal year (year 5 of Diocletian and year 4 of Maximian) gives the date. Liturgies were compulsory public services imposed on property-owning citizens.

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 before a Praefect). 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.12.1503

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 288 - 289 · Oxyrhynchos

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