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Minutes of an interrogation concerning associates of robbers TM 30485Antinoopolis (?)spätes III

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Fragmentary minutes of court proceedings from the late 3rd century AD, probably from Antinoopolis, in which an official named Archias interrogates witnesses about people associated with robbers. A witness is ordered tortured and claims earlier statements were made under many tortures; the record ends with a request for release in accordance with the minutes.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] and Hermammon son of Dios(?) [...] and [...] [...] we have suffered in our soul(?) and [...] [...] we do not know whether they have [...]. Archias said: [...] [...] this [...] of the matters [...] [...] so that [...] while I was staying there it was reported to me that Lyk[...] [...] Anoubion the stationarius [...] [...] if at first they were driven out, they remained thereafter there in [...] [...] of the things said [...] from which I made [...] [...] Archias said: "Not even his sons with them? How many times were they there?" He answered: "Never [...]" [...] previously about them [...] through an interpreter?" He answered: [...] [...] having ordered him to be tortured, said: "Tell the truth. Were the associates of [...] together with the robbers?" [...] He answered: "We have said it because of the many tortures." Archias said: "Whom then from the village [...]" [...] Archias said: "And who [...]?" He answered: "Others too from the village." Archias said: "Who from [...] [...] of the slaves(?) and of [...] Apollinarios and Plousianos [...] their [...] [...] these being the things said about them [...] the contrary [...] torture(?) [...] [...] and to prove from the active (officials?), although up to now they have not appeared [...] [...] and according to the minutes to be released.

A stationarius was a soldier posted at a police or road station. Torture of witnesses (basanos) was a normal part of judicial examination of lower-status persons in Roman Egypt.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes III · Antinoopolis (?)

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