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p.mich.5.228 24. Nov. 47Areos Kome (Arsinoites)

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Petition to the strategos about an assault causing a miscarriage. A petition to Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Thouonis son of Akousilaos of Areos Kome. He complains that the herdsman Bentetis of Oxyrhyncha, who owed him wages and grain, assaulted him and beat his pregnant wife Tanouris so badly that she miscarried and lies in danger of death, and he asks that the village elders send the accused for trial. Written in November AD 47. machine translation

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Transcription

ὡς ἐτῶν κϛ οὐλὴ τραχήλῳ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν καὶ πήχει ἀριστερῶι ἡ γυνὴ Τανοῦρις Ἡρωνᾶτος κατὰ Βεντήτιος τοῦ Βεντήτιος. παρὰ Θουώνιος τοῦ Ἀκουσιλάου τῶν ἀπὸ Ἄρεως Κώμης τῇ κϛ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ η ἔτους Τιβερίου. Ἀπολλωνίῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου παρὰ Θουώνιος τοῦ Ἀκουσιλάου τῶν ἀπὸ Ἄρεως Κώμης τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος τῇ κϛ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ η ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος. ἐμοῦ λογοποιουμένου πρὸς Βεντῆτιν Βεντήτιος προβατοκτηνοτρόφου τῶν ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύνχων τῆς αὐτῆς μερίδος περὶ ὧν ὀφείλει μοι ὀψωνίων καὶ μετρημάτων οὗτος οὖν μὴ βουλόμενος ἀποδοῦναι ἀλλὰ καὶ διαπλανῆσαι ὕβριν μοι ἐπετέλεσεν καὶ τῇ γυναικί μου Τανούρει Ἡρωνᾶτος ἐν τῇ δηλουμένῃ Ἄρεως Κώμης. ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἔδωκεν τῇ γυναικὶ Τανούρει ἀφειδέστερα πληγὰς πλήρεις εἰς τὰ παρατυχόντα μέρη τοῦ σώματος ἐγκύῳ οὔσῃ ὥστε παρʼ αὐτῇ ἐκτέτρωται τὸ βρέφος νεκρὸν ὥστε αὐτὴν κατακλινῆ εἶναι καὶ κινδυνεύειν τοῦ ζῆν. διὸ ἀξιῶ γράψαι τοῖς τῆς Ὠξυρύνχων πρεσβυτέροις ἐκπέμψαι τὸν ἐνκαλούμενον ἐπὶ σὲ πρὸς τὴν ἐσομένην ἐπέξοδον. εὐτύχει. ἔτους ὀγδόου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ κϛ Θουῶνις ὡς ἐτῶν κϛ οὐλὴ τραχήλῳ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν καὶ πήχει ἀριστερῷ.

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About 26 years old, scar on the neck on the left and on the left forearm. The wife Tanouris daughter of Heronas, against Bentetis son of Bentetis. From Thouonis son of Akousilaos, of those from Areos Kome, on the 26th of the present month Neos Sebastos of year 8 of Tiberius. To Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Thouonis son of Akousilaos, of those from Areos Kome of the division of Polemon, on the 26th of the present month Neos Sebastos of year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. When I was settling accounts with Bentetis son of Bentetis, sheep and cattle herder, of those from Oxyrhyncha of the same division, concerning the wages and measures (of grain) he owes me, he, not wishing to pay but rather to evade me, committed an outrage against me and against my wife Tanouris daughter of Heronas in the aforementioned Areos Kome. Moreover he also gave my wife Tanouris, who was pregnant, unsparing full blows on whatever parts of her body he happened to hit, so that she miscarried the baby dead, and as a result she is bedridden and in danger of her life. Therefore I ask you to write to the elders of Oxyrhyncha to send the accused to you for the proceedings to follow. Farewell. Year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month Neos Sebastos 26. Thouonis, about 26 years old, scar on the neck on the left and on the left forearm.

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