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Application to the archidikastes for service of a contract copy TM 21926Oxyrhynchos8. März 209

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An application forwarded through the archidikastes Eudaimon alias Asklepiades to Didymos, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, asking that a copy of a private handwritten contract be officially served on the other party. The applicant is a son of Aurelius Horeion, a former high Alexandrian official, and the contract was addressed to Horeion through his friend Pudens. It is dated 8 March 209.

In English machine translation

[…] [To Didymos, strategos, through Am]monios, deputy, [from] […] (?), son of […] Aurelius Horeion, and however he is styled, former strategos [of the city and archidikastes], through Philoromaios, steward. Of the document which I obtained from the [record office, there follows a cop]y. Eudaimon also called Asklepiades, priest and archidikastes, [to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, gr]eeting. Let a copy of the memorandum submitted [be served as written below. Farewell.] Year 17 of Lucius Septimius Severus and Marcus Aure[lius Antoninus, Augusti, Pha]menoth 12. I, Teras, through Dionysios, have signed. To Eudaimon also called [Asklepiades, priest, archidikastes and in charg]e of the supervision of the chrematistai and the other [courts, from] […], son of […] Aurelius Horeion, and however he is styled, former s[trategos of the city and in charge of the corn sup]ply and ambassador and archidikastes. Of the [handwritten contract] issued to me [by …] and of the subscription below it a copy follows […] […] to [Calp]urnius Aurelius Horeion, and however he is styled, [former strategos of the most splendid] city of the Alexandrians, through Pudens his friend, [greeting. I acknowledge …] son of […] Aurelius Horion […] to Pudens […] [… 4 lines lost …] […]

The archidikastes was an Alexandrian official who oversaw the registration of private contracts; applicants used his office to give a handwritten contract (cheirographon) public force. The applicant's name is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to an Archidicastes). 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 · 8. März 209 · Oxyrhynchos

[…]ωι. Διδύμῳ στρατηγῷ διʼ Ἀμμωνίου διαδόχου παρὰ[…]υρι[…]ου Αὐρηλίου Ὡρείωνος καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει γενομένου στρατηγοῦ τῆς πόλεως καὶ ἀρχιδικαστοῦ διὰ Φιλορωμαίου οἰκονόμου. οὗ ἐπόρισα ἐκ τοῦ καταλογείου χρηματισμοῦ ἐστιν ἀντίγραφον. Εὐδαίμων ὁ καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ ἀρχιδικα…