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Draft of a petition by Apollonios son of Apollonios of Oxyrhyncha, acting as legal representative of his wife Charito, who had won a case before the archidikastes Claudius Sara[…] over a mortgage on grain land against a woman named Sinth[…]. Since the opponent refuses to accept the judgment and reopens the case, he asks that the nome strategos be instructed to force her to comply.
The text is a draft with several deletions and corrections by the writer. The archidikastes was the chief judge in Alexandria, responsible among other things for registering and enforcing contracts; the name of the judge appears both as Claudius Sara[…] and as Apol[…], perhaps a slip in the draft.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Draft of a 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.
παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων … τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου. ἐχούσης τῆς γυναικός μου Χαριτῶτος τῆς Ἀσκλᾶ πρὸς Σινθ Ἀχιλλ περὶ ὑποθήκης σιτικῶν ἐδάφους πρὸς τὸ ὀφειλόμενον κεφάλαιον καὶ ἐμοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου ἐκδίκου ὄντος ἀφʼ οὗ ἐποήσατο συστατικοῦ ἐκρίθην σὺν τῆι ἀντιδίκωι ἐπὶ …
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