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Petition citing an imperial rescript on cession of property TM 9197Arsinoitesca. 215

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A petition from Aurelius Kastor son of Serenos to the strategos Aurelius Apollonios also called Soter, prefaced by a copy of an imperial rescript of Septimius Severus and Caracalla. The rescript rules that people who have surrendered their property (cessio bonorum) are freed from civic and private liabilities and keep their civic standing, and the petitioner invokes it to be left undisturbed. Arsinoite nome, about AD 215.

In English machine translation

Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti […] you withdraw from your property. But it draws [into] […] some you will endure (?) after you have ceded […] to legislate, that those who have made the cession ought not to be held liable either to civic or to private [obligations], nor be bound by any other payment, but be released [from them and] […] on account of a monetary grant free […] therefore in the position of persons in good standing [we] establish […] we [ordered (?)] that those who have ceded their property [should not be insulted nor] deprived of their civic standing. Year 8, Pharmouthi […] To Aurelius Apollonios also called Soter, strategos [of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome], from Aurelius Kastor son of Serenos […] Since the divine constitutions [of our lords, set out above,] clearly declare [that those who have made the cession] are to be kept undisturbed […] […] […]

Ekstasis here is the Roman cessio bonorum, the voluntary surrender of one's estate to creditors or liturgical obligations. The rescript is dated Year 8 of the joint reign (AD 199/200), while the petition itself is later.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 215 · Arsinoites

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Λούκιος Σεπτίμιος Σεουῆρος Εὐσεβὴς Πέρτιναξ Ἀραβικὸς Ἀδιαβηνικὸς Παρθικὸς Μέγιστος καὶ Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Εὐσεβὴς Σεβαστοὶ[…] ἀφίστασαι τῶν ὑπαρχόντων. ἕλκει δὲ εἰς[…] τινας ὑπομενεῖς μετὰ τὸ ἐκστῆναί σε […] νομοθετῆσαι, ὅτι οὐ χρὴ τοὺς…