Archidikasta is a compound expression derived from the Greek terms arche ('post' 'charge') and the verb dikadso ('to be judge'). It refers to the judicial authority of the Hellenic era that knew Ptolemaic Egypt and operated in such legal cases. They are known to have been officials who intervened in the judicial administration of Alexandria, where the plaintiffs were present if the resolutions decreed by the "crematists" or itinerant judges were rejected; however the main purpose of these characters is unknown. During Roman domination the jurisdiction and dominion of the archikista was increased in Egypt, in an era where local current legislations were tolerated by the invaders. The archdiocese was elected from a supreme court of 30 members in Alexandria, as witnessed by the accounts of Strabo and Diodorus Siculus. According to Strabo, it was the katalogeion (the one that controlled the central archives) who performed the functions of the archdiocese, but the truth was that justice intervened from the central government, in combination with the iuridicus, the epistratego and the procurator of idios logos, which administered tax material.
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