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Archidikastes' letter ordering registration of a document in the property record office TM 9118Arsinoites20. Juni 135

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An official letter from Claudius Philoxenos, archidikastes (chief judge) at Alexandria, to Archias, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, forwarding the petition of Julius Agrippianus. He instructs that, if the petition's claims are true, the keepers of the property records should register the deposit of the examined document. Dated 20 June AD 135.

In English machine translation

Claudius Philoxenos, neokoros of the great Sarapis, former prefect of the first cohort of Damascenes, one of those maintained tax-free in the Museum, priest and archidikastes, to Archias, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, most honoured, greetings. I have sent you the petition of Julius Agrippianus, having endorsed it. If, then, the things declared in it are true and nothing stands in the way, you will do well to write to the keepers of the property records of the nome under you, so that, taking up the document which has been examined, they may carry out the deposit (parathesis) as is proper. I pray for your health, most honoured. Year 19 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Pauni 26.

The parathesis was the formal deposit of a document with the bibliophylakes enkteseon, the keepers of the property records, to secure its legal standing. The neokoros was a temple warden, here an honorary title of the official.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Juni 135 · Arsinoites

Κλαύδιος Φιλόξενος νεωκόρος τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος γενόμενος ἔπαρχος σπείρης πρώτης Δαμασκηνῶν τῶν ἐν τῶι Μουσείωι σιτουμένων ἀτελῶν ἱερεὺς καὶ ἀρχιδικαστὴς Ἀρχίαι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοίτου τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν· βιβλίδιον Ἰουλίου Ἀγριππιανοῦ σημειωσάμενος ἔπεμψά σοι· ἐὰν οὖν τὰ διʼ α…