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Proceedings concerning the dismissal of a village scribe TM 9245Arsinoites30. März 141

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Fragmentary minutes of a court hearing held on 30 March AD 141 in the Arsinoite nome. Psoies and others argue about the conduct of a village scribe, apparently Herieus, who had allotted land, and an order is given to remove him from his scribal office.

In English machine translation

Year 4 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pharmouthi 4, [before …] Psoies came forward and said: "Theon [says (?)] that he was … of the scribe […] of year 2, that [Herieus (?)] was village scribe […] of Herieus." Heliodoros: "Theon said: when Hera[…]" […] said: "In year 2 of Antoninus Caesar the lord Herieus […] […] to act as scribe, sometimes as scribe of villages, sometimes […] […] villages (?), these things he distributed to a certain colonia (?) and […] […] of those to him the colonia, and having become […] to the north, and the bare land there toward the […] […] came as far as the village, and the houses […] […] said: "Remove him from the scribal office […] […] at the time, having acquired, taken back […] […] to us; restore … according to custom […] […] of the epistrategoi concerning not excluding (?) outside […]

The right side of every line is lost, so the speakers and details of the dispute are uncertain. The word kolonia (perhaps a group of settlers or allotment) has no clear English equivalent here.

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 · 30. März 141 · Arsinoites

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