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Court proceedings on the petition of Demetria daughter of Polydeukes over her father's estate TM 33347Antinoopolis ? (Antinoites, Ägypten)299

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Fragment of court proceedings from AD 299, probably from Antinoopolis, in which an advocate speaks for Demetria, daughter of Polydeukes, a former gymnasiarch. After her father's death, opponents apparently took the best parts of the estate, and she asks the official not to refer the case to new judges but to set a deadline for her opponents to appear and to give a ruling in her favour.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords Diocletian Augustus for the 7th time and Maximian Augustus for the 6th time, on the day […] […] said: Demetria daughter of Polydeukes petitions […] […] to be fortunate (?) […] that I first beseech your excellency […] […] to be referred to the new judges, if […] […] her father was […] both in the gymnasiarchy and in the other offices of honour […] […] his […] and neither of the father nor indeed of the daughter […] […] when Polydeukes died, at that time the […] […] opposing […] whether they hold the best of the property […] […] of the […] She therefore declines the judgment […] […] to be […] before whom we shall show neither rightful possession […] […]. But now the poor woman is compelled […] […] and the best […] but the worst […] […] a set time limit […] if they should not appear […] […] […] she asks, being assisted […] […] to pronounce […] [… lines lost …]

The opening dating line is in Latin while the speeches are in Greek, as is usual in court records of this period. The provenance Antinoopolis is uncertain.

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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dominis nostris DiocletianoAugusto VII et Maximiano Augusto VI consulibus die […] […]du… dixit Δημητρία Πολυδεύκους ἐντυγχάνει […] […]… εὐτυχῆσαι … ἐμὲ τὸ πρῶτον δεηθῆναι τῆς σῆς χρηστότητος[…] […]ς ἐπὶ τοὺς καινοὺς δικαστὰς ἀναπέμπεσθαι εἰ κειμεν[…] […] γέγονεν πατὴρ αὐτῆς καὶ γ…

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