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p.ammon.2.27 Okt. - Nov. 348Panopolis

Draft of a petition to the katholikos [between 348 Dec. 9 and 348 Dec. 13] via APIS-papyrus

Mandate of Ammon to Faustinus concerning his late brother's slaves in Alexandria. A written mandate (power of attorney) by which the lawyer Aurelius Ammon of Panopolis authorizes his friend Aurelius Faustinus, a former magistrate and councillor, to act for him. Faustinus is to inform the prefect of Egypt, Flavius Nestorius, that Ammon is the lawful heir of his late brother Harpokration, whose slaves in Alexandria someone is trying to seize, and to recover them or have them held by the authorities until Ammon arrives. It dates to October-November 348. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Αὐρήλιος Ἄμμων Πετεαρβεσχίνιος σχολαστικὸς ἀπὸ Πανὸς πόλεως τῆς Θηβαίδος Αὐρηλίωι Φαυστίνωι πολίτηι καὶ φίλωι ἄρξαντι βουλευτῆι τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ ἐγὼ τέως ἀσχολούμενος τυγχάνω, πρᾶγμα νῦν σπουδαιότατον μετὰ χεῖρας ἔχων καὶ τὸν τῆς γεωργίας ἅμα καιρὸν ἐπέχοντά με στέλλεσθαι πρὸς ἀποδημίαν, βλέπων ἐν τῶι παρόντι, ὅπως μὴ ἄσπορος ἡ ἡμετέρα γῆ γενομένη πρὸς τὰς δημοσίας με εἰσφορὰς ἐνεδρεύσηι, ἐντέλλομαί σοι κατὰ ταύτην μου τὴν ἔγγραφον ἐντολὴν τὴν χώραν μου τέως πληρῶσαι . ἀκήκοα γάρ τινα ἐξαίφνης ἔξωθεν ἐπιστάντα βιαίωι τρόπωι ἢ κατὰ παραλογισμὸν ἐπιχειρεῖν ἁρπάσαι τὰ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρεία ἀνδράποδα τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἁρποκρατίωνος, ὡς ὄντα νῦν ἀδέσποτα καὶ ὡς μὴ ἐπὶ κληρονόμοις ἐκείνου τελευτήσαντος . ἐντέλλομαι οὖν σοι τὸν κύριόν μου τὸν διασημότατον ἔπαρχον τῆς Αἰγύπτου Φλάουιον Νεστόριον περὶ τούτου διδάξαι, ὡς ἀδελφὸς ὑπάρχει τοῦ ἀπελθόντος ἐκείνου Ἁρποκρατίωνος ὁμοπάτριός τε καὶ ὁμομήτριος νόμιμος ἐκείνου κληρονόμος Ἄμμων τοὔνομα, ὃς καὶ τῶν κατὰ Θηβαίδα ὀλίγων αὐτοῦ πραγμάτων καὶ ταῦτα χερσωθέντων τὰς ὀχλήσεις φέρει καὶ κατʼ ἀνάγκην τῶν νόμων αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν τούτων φροντίδα συνελαυνόντων διὰ τὰ τελέσματα τὰ δημόσια · ταύτην δέ σοι τὴν ἐντολὴν ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ ἰδίοις γράμμασι γραφεῖσαν ἐπιδίδωμι κυρίαν οὖσαν καὶ βεβαίαν πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαι ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ λόγον ἐν τῶι δικαστηρίωι νομίμως ποιήσασθαι καὶ ἢ ἀπολαβεῖν τὰ ἀνδράποδα ἢ ἀξιῶσαι τηρηθῆναι ταῦτα προνοίαι τῆς τάξεως, μέχρις ἂν τὸ δικαστήριον τὴν πρὸς ἀκρίβειαν καταλάβηι πίστιν ἐμοῦ παραγενομένου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Aurelius Ammon son of Petearbeschinis, scholastikos, from Panopolis in the Thebaid, to Aurelius Faustinus, fellow citizen and friend, former magistrate and councillor of the same city, greetings. Since I happen to be busy for the present, having a most urgent matter now in hand, and since the season of cultivation at the same time prevents me from setting out on a journey, taking care for the present that our land should not remain unsown and so expose me to the public levies, I instruct you by this my written mandate to take my place for the time being. For I have heard that someone has suddenly appeared from outside and is attempting, by force or by fraud, to seize the slaves in Alexandria belonging to my brother Harpokration, as though they were now without an owner and as though he had died without heirs. I therefore instruct you to inform my lord the most distinguished prefect of Egypt, Flavius Nestorius, about this: that there exists a brother of the late Harpokration, of the same father and the same mother, his lawful heir, Ammon by name, who also bears the burdens of his few affairs in the Thebaid, and these having become waste land, the laws compelling him of necessity to take charge of them because of the public taxes. This mandate, written by me in my own hand, I hand over to you, valid and binding, so that you may be able lawfully to plead on my behalf in the court and either recover the slaves or request that they be kept under the care of the office until the court obtains exact proof on my arrival.

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Found at Akhmim
Deities Amun

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