Petition of Dionysia concerning Egyptian and Roman law, with subscription TM 21924Oxyrhynchites3. Jan. 267

Fragment of a petition submitted by a woman named Dionysia, apparently to the prefect, concerning whether Egyptian laws or Roman law should apply to someone holding Roman citizenship. The official's reply instructs that the petition be made known to the archive keepers to prevent fraud against the treasury, and that the parties approach him when the opposing side's case is heard; it was filed in the Oxyrhynchite nome on 3 January 267.

In English machine translation

The text appears to be a copy from a roll of glued petitions ("sheet 2"), with a second submission by Aurelius Serenus also called Sarapion. The bibliophylakes were the keepers of the property-record archive.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to 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.