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Demand for repayment of a deposit of 600 drachmas, addressed to the archidikastes TM 869384ArsinoitesMitte II

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Petition to the archidikastes in Alexandria by a man from the Arsinoite nome, asking that the strategos of the Herakleides division serve notice on a debtor, son of Stotoetis, or his heirs, to repay a deposit of 600 silver drachmas under a contract registered at Boubastos, or face execution against his property. It dates to the mid-2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] ... [...] [...] of the katalogeion [...] [...] and hypomnematographos, [son of ...] [neokoros of the great Sarapis, former] strategos of the city, priest, archidikastes and [in charge of the chrematistai] and the other courts, from Paen[...] [...]papouph... from the Arsinoite nome. Since there are owed [to me by] [...] son of Stotoetis, under a contract drawn up through the record office in Boubastos [...] of Hadrian, Phamenoth, a deposit of 600 silver drachmas, the [repayment] of which [...] whenever I choose, and since the repayment has not been made, I ask [that you order a letter to be written to the] strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, to serve a copy of this [petition on him, if] he is alive, or if not, on his heirs, whose names [will be made known on the spot, so that] they may repay me the aforesaid capital sum or know [that I shall have the right of execution, as is] proper, against his property, from the time when I complete [the documents for seizure] [...]mos son of Didymos, giving to the city on behalf of ... 12 Year [...] [Caesar] the lord, month Sebastos, Eusebeios 4. Signed, Thoth 4. [...] I served it in the presence of [...], Mecheir 9.

The archidikastes was a high Alexandrian judicial official whose office (the katalogeion) handled such demands for payment. The month Sebastos (Thoth) and the day name Eusebeios are honorific imperial calendar names.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mahnbescheid zur Rückgabe oder Vollstreckung eines Depositums). 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

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