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Draft concerning a dispute over runaway slaves between Ammon and Eugenios TM 100076Alexandria bzw. Panopolis9. - 13. Dez. 348

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Draft of a statement drawn up under the name of Komon concerning a dispute over runaway slaves. Ammon, brother of Harpokration, was summoned from Panopolis to Alexandria through the procurator of the Thebaid at the instance of Sisinnios; a certain Eugenios, who had pursued the slaves, and Ammon, who claimed ownership and inheritance rights, submitted the matter to mediating friends, who gave a judgement.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] [to the] procurator of the Thebaid by my lord Sisinnios [through this Eugenios was sent, so that, if there should be found] a certain Ammon, brother of Harpokration, in the city of the Panopolites, he should be urged to present himself [at Alexandria] on account of these slaves. And the procurator, having written to the Panopolites […] […] of my lord Sisinnios, received letters [from them], a report showing that Ammon, brother of Harpokration, had gone with Eugenios to Alexandria. But since that Eugenios, having been in the city of the Panopolites, learned the precise facts of the matter, he then [turned] to something else. For when [friends] acted as mediators at his request, and Eugenios […] and putting forward no small labours, until he could […] to catch the slaves, who had always had flight in mind, and for these […], while this Ammon set against this his right of ownership and his right of inheritance from him, it was judged by the [friends] who mediated […] […] having thought and having toiled […]

One of several drafts in the archive of the Panopolite scholastikos Ammon; the outcome of the arbitration is lost in the gaps. The scribe deleted a repeated phrase in the last line.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein weiteres Konzept unter Komons Namen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.ammon.2.35

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. - 13. Dez. 348 · Alexandria bzw. Panopolis

[… ? lines lost …] […]…ιστω…η …βαι…[…] πρὸς τὸν κατὰ Θηβαίδα ἐπίτροπον ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου μου Σισιννίου διὰ τοῦ Εὐγενείου τούτου ἀπεστάλη, ὅπως, εἰ εὑρεθείη τις Ἄμμων ἀδελφὸς Ἁρποκρατίωνος ἐν τῆι Πανοπολιτῶν πόλει, ἐπειχθῇ ἀπαντᾶν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν διὰ ταῦτα τὰ ἀνδράποδα. ὁ δὲ ἐπίτροπ…