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p.oxy.48.3394 364 - 366 (?)Oxyrhynchos

Petition to Flavius Flavianus via HGV-meta

Petition of two brothers to the prefect about oppressive creditors. Petition from the brothers Aurelius Papnouthis and Aurelius Dorotheos of Oxyrhynchus to the prefect Flavius Flavianus. They borrowed money to pay their taxes to the treasury, suffered unexpected losses, and are being pressed by greedy creditors to the point of destitution and flight, so they ask the prefect for mercy and for the creditors to be made to act fairly. The verso names the creditors (?) Thonios son of Kopres, Dioskourides and Severus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Φλαουίωι Φλαουιανῶι τῷ λαμπροτάτωι […] παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Παπνουτίου καὶ Δωροθέου ἀμφοτέρων[…]ἀπὸ τῆς[…] Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως. πάντας μὲν ο…[…] ἡγεμὼν κύριε, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ ἡμᾶς τοὺς μετρι[…] […]ίας […]αζόμενοι τὰ εὐσεβῆ τελέσματα π…[…] εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖον πληρῶσαι ἐδανεισάμεθα[…] […]…αι τοῦτο εὐμαρῶς πληρῶσαι, ἀλλὰ ἀπ[…]τυχ[…] παρὰ τὰς ἡμετέρας προσδοκίας παθόντες ζημίωμα […]…ς, οἱ δὲ δανεισταὶ τῆς ἐχούσης ἡμᾶς μ…[…] […]ὄντας πλείστους ἀπῄτησαν ἕως ἂν ἐκ τῆς εκ[…] […]…[…]…εν εἰς τοσοῦτον ὥσθʼ ἡμᾶς καὶ τῶν ἀναγκαίων δεῖσθαι[…] […]ἕνεκεν τῆς τῶν δανειστῶν πλεονεξίας καὶ δ[…] […]…[…]ς τὴν πατρίδα καταλεῖψαι στενοχωρ […] […] τόδε σοι ποιήσασθαι διὰ τοῦτο ἀναγκ[…] […]… παρασχόμενοι ὅπως ἐλεήσῃς τ[…] […]… παρὰ Ἀθανασίου τοῦ προπολιτευομένου […] […]δοῦναι πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, τῆς τύχης […]ε[…] […] δανεισταῖς τὸ εὔγνωμον ποιήσασθαι καὶ …[…] […]συμμεῖναι καὶ εἰς ἀεὶ σοὶ εὐχαριστήσομεν […] Αὐρήλιος Παπνοῦθις Ἀφυγχίου ἐπιδέδωκα. Αὐρήλιος Δωρόθεος Ἀφυγχίου ἐπιδέδωκα. [v] λέγομεν δὴ Θωνίου υἱοῦ Κοπρῆτος καὶ Διοσκουρίδου καὶ Σευήρου

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To Flavius Flavianus, the most illustrious […] from the Aurelii Papnoutios and Dorotheos, both […] from the […] city of the Oxyrhynchites. All men, my lord prefect, [you …], but especially us, the humble (?) […] […] the pious taxes […] in order to pay them into the most sacred treasury we borrowed […] […] to pay this easily, but […] contrary to our expectations, having suffered loss […], and the creditors, the […] holding us […] demanded very many (?) […] until from the […] […] to such a point that we [are in want] even of necessities […] because of the greed of the creditors and […] […] to leave our homeland, being in distress […] to make this [petition] to you, for this reason compelled […] providing […] so that you may have pity on […] […] from Athanasios, the former magistrate […] […] to give to the city, of the fortune […] […] to show fairness to the creditors and […] […] to abide, and we shall be forever grateful to you […] I, Aurelius Papnouthis son of Aphynchis, have submitted it. I, Aurelius Dorotheos son of Aphynchis, have submitted it. [verso] We mean, namely, Thonios son of Kopres and Dioskourides and Severus

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