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Petition of Aurelia Ataris to Abinnaeus about assault by a debtor TM 10043Hermopolis (Arsinoites)29. Aug. 346

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Petition from Aurelia Ataris, daughter of a veteran and landowner at the village of Hermopolis, to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry unit at Dionysias. She complains that when she demanded repayment of a debt, her debtor and others shut her in his house and assaulted her, and she asks that they be arrested and sent to the dux. Dated 29 August 346.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Abinnaeus, prefect of the ala of soldiers of the camp of Dionysias, from Aurelia Ataris, daughter of Melas, veteran, landowner in the village of Hermopolis. On the third of the epagomenal days, using I know not what reason and in the manner of a robber, at about the tenth hour, when I was demanding the debt owed to me, he shut me up in his house, together with the son of Horion, named Apion, and the same Pol, surnamed Obellos, and his sister Kyriake; and I took flight from his house. […] myself to the point of death […] I lie bedridden. For this very reason I ask and beg your benevolence to arrest these men and send them to our lord the dux; for it is his task to punish those who dare such things. And obtaining this I shall acknowledge my gratitude to you, lord. Farewell. I, Aurelia Ataris, have submitted this. In the consulship of our masters Constantius for the 4th time and Constans for the 3rd time, Augusti, Thoth 1.

The lines describing her injuries are damaged and garbled in the original, so their exact wording is uncertain. The Hermopolis here is a village in the Fayum, not the city Hermopolis Magna.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. 346 · Hermopolis (Arsinoites)

Φλαουίῳ Ἀβινναίῳ ἐπάρχῳ εἴλης στρατιωτῶν κάστρων Διονυσιάδος παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀτᾶρις θυγατρὸς Μέλανος οὐετρανοῦ γεουχούσης ἐν κώμῃ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως. κατὰ τὴν τρίτην ἐπαγομένων, οὐκ οἶδα τίνι λόγῳ καὶ λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ χρησάμενοι, πρὸς ὥραν δεκάτην, ἐμοῦ ἀπαιτοῦντός μου τὸ χρεωστεῖ μου χρέο…