Court proceedings before the prefect Flavius Herakleios on a denunciatio TM 22344Hermopolis

Fragmentary minutes of court proceedings before the prefect Flavius Herakleios, concerning the procedure of formal summons (denunciatio) issued by the authority of the court. The papyrus comes from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

Denunciatio ex auctoritate was a Late Roman procedure by which a plaintiff's summons was served on the defendant with the backing of the court. The speaker's name and much of the ruling are restored by the editors from parallel wording.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Denunciatio ex auctoritate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.