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Address of Eudaimon to the archidikastes Apion TM 27380unbekanntca. 117 - 118
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The opening address of a document, probably a petition or application, sent by Eudaimon to Apion, priest and archidikastes (chief judge) in Alexandria, listing Apion's offices and ancestry. Only the heading survives; it dates to about AD 117-118.
In English machine translation
To Apion, former prytanic magistrate […], son of […]doros, former archidikastes, grandson of […]doros, of those who have served as agoranomos and kosmetes, former exegetes […], priest and archidikastes and in charge of the chrematistai and of the other courts,
from Eudaimon son of […], of the Hephaistieus (deme) […]
[…] of Deios (?) […]
[…]
[…]
The archidikastes was a high Alexandrian judicial official, also responsible for the chrematistai (circuit judges) and other courts. Hephaistieus is the name of an Alexandrian deme, so the sender was probably an Alexandrian citizen.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Address to the Archidikastes). 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.bas.2.18
Ἀπίωνι γενομένῳ πρυτανικῷ ἄρχοντι […] δώρου γενομένου ἀρχιδικαστοῦ υἱῷ, […] δώρου τῶν ἠγορανομηκότων καὶ κεκοσμητευκότων γενομένου ἐξηγητοῦ […] υἱωνῷ ἱερεῖ καὶ ἀρχιδικαστῇ καὶ πρὸς τῇ ἐπιμελείᾳ τῶν χρηματιστῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κριτηρίων παρὰ Εὐδαίμονος τοῦ […] […] Ἡφαιστιέως […] […]…