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Report on a dispute over an inheritance and a child's birth certificate TM 22171Oxyrhynchos123 - 138 (?)

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Fragment of a report of proceedings or petition from Oxyrhynchus, probably from Hadrian's reign, concerning an inheritance claimed for a woman named Areia and a dispute about a child's status and birth certificate. A man named Dioskoros is said to have consulted the strategos Pontius Antoninus, and the matter was referred to Julius Pardalas, a former official of the Idios Logos.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] [… 9 lines lost …] and a copy of the registration of the inheritance as having been made in the property record office of that nome; and in response to this, Dioskoros saying that he did not know whether the inheritance belonged to Areia, (he said that) he had written to Pontius Antoninus, the strategos of that nome, to examine this very matter from the records in his keeping and to report, as he had replied (?); and since (the question concerns) citizenship, and the matter under inquiry concerning the child's birth certificate (aparche), and that Dioskoros at one time claimed he was unable to produce it, and at another time that he would search for the birth certificate and bring it, he had referred (the matter) to [Julius Pa]rdalas, the former [Idios Logos (?)] [Column 2] […] [… 23 lines lost …]

The aparche here is a registration document for a child, relevant to proving citizen status. The record classifies it tentatively as a petition; the surviving text reads like a summary of proceedings.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition (?)). 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.18.2199

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 123 - 138 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

[1] [… 9 lines lost …] καὶ ἀντίγραφον καταγραφῆς κληρονομίας ὡς γενομένης εἰς τὴν τῶν ἐνκτήσεων ἐκείνου τοῦ νομοῦ βιβλιοθήκην καὶ πρὸς ταῦτα τοῦ Διοσκόρου λέγοντος ἀγνοεῖν, εἰ τῆι Ἀρείᾳ προσήκει ἡ κληρονομία, γεγραφέναι Ποντίωι Ἀντωνείνωι τῶι ἐκείνου τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγῶι ἐξετάσαι …