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p.koeln.17.663
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Official letter forwarding a report of violence at Peensemtheus. Fragments of an official letter from the Herakleopolite nome, 2nd century BC, forwarding a report about an incident at the village of Peensemtheus. Someone apparently forced his way past the village guards and a man was left badly hurt; the attached report describes a night attack on a boat in which the writer was wounded and showed his injuries to the guards. machine translation
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TM 703504.
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[fragment a]
[…] κώμης Πεενσεμθέως κ[…]
[…] τὴν ὑποκειμένην προσαγγελίαν […]
[…]… κρίνηις παραδόντος ἡμῖν τ[…]
[…] τοὺς φυλακίτας ἀποβιασάμενος …[…]
[…]…[…]…ως τῶν προκειμένων προσταγμάτων […]
[…]πιδεδεσ[…] ὥστε αὐτὸν δεινῶς διακεῖσθαι […]
[…]α διασάφησον, ὡς ἂν φαίνηται, δια[…]
[…] φυλακίτ[…] Πεενσεμθέως […]
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[fragment b]
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[…]…[…]
[…]ειου. τῆι εἰς τὴν ιε τοῦ […] φερούσηι νυκτί […]
[…]…μ…θ… ἐμ πλοίωι ἐκδ[…]ο…
[…]…αι ἐτραυματίσθην μετὰ δὲ τ[…]
[…] φυλακίταις ἐπιδείξας καὶ τὸ γενόμενον
[…]… οἷς καθήκει καὶ τὸ πλοῖον σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις […]Translations (1)
[fragment a]
[…] of the village of Peensemtheus […]
[…] the report written below […]
[…] you may decide, (he?) having handed over to us […]
[…] having forced his way past the guards (phylakitai) […]
[…] of the aforementioned decrees […]
[…] bound (?) […] so that he is in a terrible condition […]
[…] report clearly, as seems best, […]
[…] guard(s) […] of Peensemtheus […]
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[fragment b]
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[…]
[…]. On the night leading to the 15th of […]
[…] in a boat […]
[…] I was wounded; and after […]
[…] having shown to the guards also what had happened
[…] to those whom it concerns, and the boat together with the other […]
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- TM-Text 703504 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.koeln;17;663 tier-1
- HGV-Text 703504 tier-1
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