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Court proceedings concerning debts, the nomarch and village elders TM 31265ArsinoitesAnfang III

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Fragment of court proceedings from the Arsinoite nome in the early 3rd century AD. A woman claims property as hers and produces deeds of sale, while advocates Ammoninos and Heliodoros argue about debts owed, the responsibility of the village elders, the nomarch and the village scribe, and the reduction of liabilities for poor or deceased persons.

In English machine translation

[…] […] secure (?) […] Herakleia (?) […] being […] our […] […] and also the most excellent centurion […] to decide (?) […] that they are mine. I therefore request, producing their deeds of sale, […] Didymos saying that the centurion had ordered the deeds of sale […] said to Isidoros and his associates: "Why do you not pay what is owed?" […] to the nomarch, but those involved in the matter are the elders, and if […] the items are the names of persons without means and others who have died […] to the village scribe regarding death, so that the proper steps may be taken and it may be reduced […] from the elders. Ammoninos, advocate, on behalf of […] these items, but the village scribe who did not show […] is not only for the debt, but also his slaves are […] and of all to be brought in. Heliodoros, advocate, on behalf of […] and the nomarch ought to […] of the payment […]

The 'elders' (presbyteroi) are village officials responsible for collections. 'Persons without means' (aporika onomata) refers to people too poor to pay their liabilities, whose names were to be removed from the lists.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · Anfang III · Arsinoites

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