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Minutes of a hearing before the strategos concerning seizure of goods TM 26561unbekanntII

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Fragment of the minutes of a hearing, probably before a strategos, in which petitions are read and parties are questioned. The case seems to involve a temple, acts of piety, and the forcible seizure of clothes and household goods; people named include Apollonios, Hermias and Soterichos. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] … you were content with the same […] […] into their temple they led him (?) […] […] you tried to show piety, nothing […] […] you wished, and accordingly bound (?) […] […] dictated him, in his presence […] […] to […] also called Apollonios and to Hermias […] […] petitions, when they had been read, not […] […] on the present day, having gone up to […] […] all our clothes and utensils […] […] they seized by force, and those in the […] […] and the appropriate […] […] and I gave, after the reading […] […] the strategos said to him: "Into another's […]" […] "I have done nothing, but he came […]" […] answered: "The […] sent me […]" […] "with whom did you wish to show piety […]" […] the strategos had him […] […] and to bring forward Soterichos […]

The identification as court proceedings is tentative; both edges of every line are lost, so the course of the case is unclear. The strategos was the chief civil official of an Egyptian district (nome).

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

p.amst.1.34

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II

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