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A small fragment of the minutes of a court hearing from Hermopolis, dating between AD 253 and 268. Someone addresses a man named Antoninus, and there are references to the town council, a debt and the office of the prefect.
"Most illustrious prefecture" (hegemonia) refers to the office of the prefect of Egypt. The phrase "from the council" may refer to a councillor or to council business.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petit fragment d'un compte rendu d'audience judiciaire). 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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