Fragment of what appears to be minutes of court proceedings concerning a dispute over farmed land and rents, involving Apion, a former exegetes, as well as Hermophilos, Bithyzelmis and Apollonios. It cites land measurements and earlier official minutes of the Hermopolite authorities, and dates to the 2nd century AD, probably from the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
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[…] in the restoration (?) which took place in the 20th year […]
[…] Apion, former exegetes, […]
[…] he produced Hermophilos […]
[…] 1 aroura […]
[…]mon and Bithyzelmis together with […]
[…] rents in accordance with those which […]
[…] minutes; but of Apion […]
[…] according to the measurement on the straight (euthymetria) […]
[…] through the minutes of the Hermopolites […]
[…] to be in the handing over […]
[…] plots of land, and once first by the […]
[…] he gave a share […]
[…] and in the time of the 4th year […]
[…] the land farmed by Apion […]
[…] Bithyzelmis and […]
[…] Apollonios […]
The exegetes was a senior municipal magistrate. Euthymetria refers to a survey measurement of land on straight lines used in land registers.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Minutes of Court Proceedings (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.