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p.oxy.12.1468 Oxyrhynchos

Petition concerning Ownership of Slaves via HGV-meta

Petition to the prefect concerning fraudulent registration of slaves. Petition from Aurelius Theoninus alias Aphynchis of Oxyrhynchus to the acting prefect of Egypt, Lucius Mussius Aemilianus, about slaves inherited by his mother. He alleges that his great-uncle Syros had fraudulently registered the children of the family's slave Thaesis as his own, and that after his mother's death the uncle's heirs were now claiming them. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Λουκίῳ Μουσσίῳ Αἰμιλιανῷ τῷ διασημοτάτῳ διέποντι τὴν ἡγεμονίαν παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Θεωνείνου τοῦ καὶ Ἀφύνχιος Διοσκόρου μητρὸς Τααφύνχιος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. τοῖς κακουργεῖν προχείρως ἔχουσιν τέχνῃ οὐ δικαίας ἐπινοίας πρὸς τῷ μηδὲν ὄφελος ἔχειν ἔτι καὶ τοῖς ἐκ τῶν νόμων ὡρισμένοις ἐπιτειμίοις ὑποβάλλει ἡ σὴ εὔτονος καὶ περὶ πάντα ἀκοίμητος πρόνοια. τοιούτου οὖν κατʼ ἐμοῦ ἐπιχειρουμένου ἐπὶ τὴν σὴν ἀνδρείαν καταφεύγω θαρρῶν τεύξεσθαι τῶν προσόντων μοι δικαίων, ἡγεμὼν κύριε. τὰ δὲ τοῦ πράγματος τοιαύτην ἔχει τὴν διήγησιν. γέγονεν τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ μητρὶ Τααφύνχει ἀπὸ κληρονομίας τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῆς Θατρῆτος Ἀπολλωνίου θεράπαινα Θαῆσις ἐξ οἰκογενοῦς δούλης Τααφύνχιος. ταύτην τὴν δούλην ἀπογραψαμένη τῇ πρὸς τὸ θ ἔτος τῆς θεοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου βασιλείας κατʼ οἰκίαν ἀπογραφῇ καὶ τὴν δεσποτείαν καὶ τὴν νομὴν εἶχεν αὐτῆς ὑφʼ ἑαυτήν. ζήτησιν δέ ποτε ποιουμένη περὶ οἰκοπέδων καὶ ἀνεραυνῶσα ἐν τοῖς ἐπὶ τόπων δημοσίοις ἀρχείοις τὰ ἔνγραφα εὗρέν τι κακουργηθέν. τὸν γὰρ πρὸς μητρὸς αὐτῆς θεῖον Σύρον Ἀπολλωνίου καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ἀπογραψαμένους μὲν εἶδεν κ…ν[…]τοὺς ἐκ Θαήσιος γεγονότας παῖδας Ἀπολλώνιον καὶ Ἁρσεῖτα, τὰς δὲ δεσποτείας καὶ κυρίας ἀλλοτριώσαντας, ὃ οὐ[…]δ[…]τον οὐδὲ προσῆκον ἦν, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἀν[…]ραν ἀπαγαγεῖν τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους ὡς ἰδίους. μ[…]αι τῶν τε λαογράφων τὸ ἀληθὲς […]νεαμ[…]… τῆς κακουργίας ταύτης μὴ σιωπησάσῃ μ[…]τ[…]ετο παρὰ Τιτινίῳ Κλωδιανῷ τῷ διασημοτάτῳ, καὶ ἕως μὲν ἐκείνη περιῆν ἀναμφισβήτητοι ἐγένοντο ἡ τῆς Ἁρσεῖτος καὶ τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου κυρία καὶ οἱ τούτων καρποί, τουτέστιν μὴ ἐπιγινωσκ[…]μεταλλαξάσης τῆς μητρός μου πρὸ μηνῶν[…]… οἱ κληρονόμοι τῶν προειρημένων[…]ρ[…]α νεαρὰς περὶ τῶν ἀνδραπόδων ἀποδείξεις[…]πώποτε τοὺς κληρονομηθέντας […]…τ[…]ν ὑπῆρχε…[…] […]καταφεύγω αυτ[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To Lucius Mussius Aemilianus, vir perfectissimus, acting prefect, from Aurelius Theoninus also called Aphynchis, son of Dioskoros and of his mother Taaphynchis, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. Those who are ready to do wrong by the craft of unjust contrivance your vigorous and in all things sleepless providence not only renders without any profit but also subjects to the penalties laid down by the laws. Since such a thing has been attempted against me, I take refuge with your manliness, confident that I shall obtain the rights that belong to me, my lord prefect. The facts of the matter are as follows. There came to our mother Taaphynchis by inheritance from her mother Thatres, daughter of Apollonios, a female slave Thaesis, born of a house-born slave Taaphynchis. Having registered this slave in the household census for the 9th year of the deified Alexander's reign, she held ownership and possession of her in her own power. But once, when making inquiry about house-sites and searching the documents in the local public record offices, she found that a fraud had been committed. For she saw that her maternal uncle Syros, son of Apollonios, and his wife had registered […] the children born of Thaesis, Apollonios and Harseis, and had alienated the ownership and title, which was not […] nor proper, but rather […] to carry off what belonged to others as their own. […] of the laographoi the truth […] not keeping silent about this fraud […] before Titinius Clodianus, vir perfectissimus, and as long as she was alive the ownership of Harseis and Apollonios and their earnings were undisputed, that is, not acknowledging […] My mother having died […] months ago […] the heirs of the aforementioned […] new proofs concerning the slaves […] ever the persons inherited […] was […] […] I take refuge […] […] [verso] […]

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