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Fragment of bilingual minutes of court proceedings TM 30994Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)Ende III - Anfang IV

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A small fragment of the minutes of court proceedings, written in Latin and Greek, in which an official of the Thebaid speaks to a party and a prytanis (city council president) is mentioned. It comes from Hermopolis and dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] for the sake of […] […] the prytanis to be […] […] to make […] […] and to give notice (?) […] […] of the Thebaid said to him: […] […] to him […] […] of the Thebaid said to him: "And again […] […] the […]

As usual in such minutes, the framing formulas are in Latin ("of the Thebaid said to him", probably part of the title of the presiding official) while the spoken words are recorded in Greek. The prytanis was the president of the city council.

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

chla.41.1189

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende III - Anfang IV · Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)

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