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p.abinn.49 5. Juli 346Theoxenis (Arsinoites)

Petition of Aurelia Maria to Abinnaeus about stolen and sheared sheep. A petition from Aurelia Maria, a landowner at Theoxenis and daughter-in-law of the soldier Akiar, to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry unit at Dionysias. She reports that thieves sheared 9 of her sheep by night and drove off 3 more, that village field-guards found two suspects, Ioannes and Eleias, and asks Abinnaeus to arrest them, force a confession and refer the matter to the dux. machine translation

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Φλαουίῳ Ἀβινναίῳ ἐπάρχῳ εἴλης στρατιωτῶν κάστρων Διονυσιάδος παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Μαρίας γαμβρᾶς Ἀκιᾶρ στρατιωτῶν τῶν ἐν Μέμφει διακειμένων ὑπὸ Κολλοῦθον πραιπόσιτον γεουχοῦντος ἐν κώμῃ Θεοξενίδι. κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Ἐπείφ, κύριε, οὐκ οἶδα τίνιλόγῳ καὶ λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ νυκτὸς χρησάμενοί τινες κακοῦργοι ἐπῆλθαν τῷ ἐμῷ ἀγρῷ τῶν προβάτων καὶ κείραντές μου πρόβατα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἐννέα ἀφηρκέναι ἄλλα τρία πρόβατα ζῶντα. καὶ ἀγροφύλακες τῆς κώμης Θεοξενίδος τὴν τῶν προβάτων κουρὰν καὶ ἀπελασίαν ἀναζητοῦντες εὗραν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ τῆς Ναρμούθεως Ἰωάννην καὶ Ἠλείαν ὡς τούτων τὴν κουρὰν καὶ ἀπελασίαν πεποιηκότων. διὰ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀξιῶ καὶ δέομαί σου τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ὅπως τούτους συλλαβόμενος καταναγκάσῃς αὐτοὺς τὴν τῶν προβάτων κουρὰν καὶ ἀπελασίαν ὁμολογῆσαι, εἶτα τὰ γραφέντα ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς γνῶσιν τοῦ κυρίου μου δουκὸς ἀνενέγκῃς· αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐστιν τοὺς τὰ τοιαῦτα τολμῶντας ἐκδικεῖν· καὶ τοῦτου τυχὼν χάριτά σοι ὁμολογήσω, κύριε. διευτύχει. Αὐρηλία Μαρία γαμβρὰ Ἀκιᾶρ στρατιώτου ἐπιδέδωκα. ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου τὸ δ καὶ Κώνσταντος τὸ γ Αὐγούστων, Ἐπεὶφ ια.

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To Flavius Abinnaeus, prefect of the ala of soldiers of the camp of Dionysias, from Aurelia Maria, daughter-in-law of Akiar, of the soldiers stationed at Memphis under Kollouthos the praepositus, landowner in the village of Theoxenis. On the second of the present month Epeiph, lord, some evildoers, using I know not what pretext and a robber's manner, came by night upon my sheep-field and, having sheared my sheep, 9 in number, carried off another 3 sheep alive. And the field-guards of the village of Theoxenis, searching into the shearing and driving off of the sheep, found in the field of Narmouthis Ioannes and Eleias as having done the shearing and driving off. For this very reason I ask and beseech your benevolence that you arrest them and compel them to confess the shearing and driving off of the sheep, and then refer what I have written to the knowledge of my lord the dux; for it is his task to punish those who dare such things. And having obtained this I shall acknowledge my gratitude to you, lord. Farewell. I, Aurelia Maria, daughter-in-law of Akiar, soldier, have submitted this. In the consulship of our masters Constantius for the 4th time and Constans for the 3rd time, Augusti, Epeiph 11.

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