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Bilingual court proceedings on an inheritance and guardianship for minors TM 78302Antinoopolis bzw. Hermopolis14. - 30. Aug. 332
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Fragmentary bilingual Latin-Greek record of court proceedings held in the council chamber at Antinoopolis in August 332. An advocate speaks for Demetria, an elderly mother, in a dispute over an inheritance and a property sale, and the judge orders that a guardian or curator be appointed for the children of Besodoros, once security is given, under the care of the exactor.
In English machine translation
[recto]
In the consulship of […]ianus, vir clarissimus, […] day before the Kalends of September, at Antinoopolis.
[…] in the council chamber (secretarium).
[…] brought in: Theophanes […]
[…] said: "On behalf of Demetria […] died with a will (?), she being in possession, supplied (provisions) to the […] but someone […] to buy one of the properties from the […] the deed of sale and the will by which […] inherit […] the woman being assisted, this having happened, was able to enter […] So, since she was a mother and an old woman, that man while alive persuaded her with promises to withdraw. He then died having escaped punishment; but the children […] happen to be […]. Therefore, being able to show this, that this inheritance belongs […] to be appointed for the children of Besodoros, and after that, once the security has been completed […]"
[…] that they appoint for the wards a guardian or curator, and when security has been completed, give notice." He answered: "Within […]"
[…] order to announce […]
[…] under the care of the exactor.
[verso]
[… lines lost …]
[…]
[…] once the security has been completed […]
[…] under the care of the exactor.
Framing and the judge's ruling are in Latin, the speeches in Greek, typical of 4th-century protocols. The exactor was the chief fiscal official of the city or nome.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bilingues Prozeßprotokoll). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.harrauer.46
[r] […]iano viro clarissimo consulibus, die […]…i Kalendas Septembres Antinoupoli […] in secretario […]… inducta Theofanes […]… dixit: ὑπὲρ Δημητρίας […]ἐτελεύτησεν βουληματίῳ ἐν τῇ νομῇ καθεστῶσα ἐχορήγει τοῖς […]… δέ τις πρίασθαί τινα τῶν ὑπαρχόντων παρὰ τῆς […]… τὸ γραμμάτιον …