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Copy of an order to bring Hermauos son of Laborios before the court TM 36519Antinoopolis (?)VIth Century AD

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Copy of an official order (commonitorium) from the governor's office instructing an officer to go to the village of Aphrodite and bring Hermauos son of Laborios, arrested by the villagers for crimes but never handed over, before the court with the evidence. It is signed by Flavius Menas, the singularius sent to carry it out, and belongs to the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodite, 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

Copy of a commonitorium of the office (taxis). Since certain persons from the Antaiopolite nome have informed the court in unwritten proceedings that the people of the village of Aphrodite arrested Hermauos son of Laborios for crimes, and have not to this day handed him over to the court, it was necessary that this letter of the office be issued to you. On receiving it, and going to the said village, with all the civil assistance in the locality serving you, bring the person who has been placed in such custody before the court, together with the evidence, so that he may be brought before their authority for a lawful examination. But see that you are not negligent; you will be risking your very safety. I, Flavius Menas, singularius, have signed, being the one dispatched, and I have issued the copy. [verso] Copy of a commonitorium. Menas, singularius. Concerning Hermauos son of Laborios.

A commonitorium was a written official instruction; a singularius was a staff officer of the provincial governor used as a messenger and enforcer. The 'unwritten proceedings' (agrapha) refers to oral information given to the court without formal written record.

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Copy of a commonitorium

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE40454 · VIth Century AD · Antinoopolis (?)

Duplicate of a notice (commonitorium) given by the offices of the praeses of lower Thebaid to an unnamed official, perhaps the singularis Menas (topoteretes of Antaiopolis?). The subject is an accused person who should be arrested and who the deliberate negligence of the people…

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p.cair.masp.3.67282

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

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