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Petition to Abinnaeus about ten stolen pigs TM 10044Hermopolis (Arsinoites)27. - 31. Dez. 346

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A petition to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry unit at Dionysias, from a villager of Hermoupolis whose ten pigs were stolen. He has found one suspect, Zoilos son of Diogenes, and asks that he be arrested, forced to name his accomplice, and that the case be referred to the dux. It dates to late December 346.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Abinnaeus, prefect of the [ala] of soldiers of the camp of Dionysias, [from] A...st, son of Heron, from the village of [Hermou]polis. Some considerable time ago, [lord], ten pigs [in number] were driven off from me by some [evildoers], and when I was searching into their driving off, being present in the village [I found] Zoilos son of Diogenes. [For this very reason] I ask and beg your [benevolence] that you arrest him and compel him to confess the [evildoer] who was with him, and then forward what [I have] written to the knowledge of my lord the [dux]; for it is his task to punish those who dare [such things]. And [having obtained] this, I shall acknowledge [my gratitude] to you, lord. [Farewell.] I, Aurelius A...st, have submitted (this). In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 4th time [and Constans] Augustus for the 4th time, Tybi [...].

The petitioner's name is only partly legible. The Hermoupolis here is a village in the Fayum, not the city of Hermopolis Magna.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. - 31. Dez. 346 · Hermopolis (Arsinoites)

Φλαουίῳ Ἀβινναίῳ ἐπάρχῳ εἴλης στρατιωτῶν κάστρων Διονυσιάδος παρὰ Α…στ Ἥρωνος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως. πρὸ ἱκανοῦ χρόνου, κύριε, ἀπηλάσθησάν μου χοῖροι τὸν ἀριθμὸν δέκα ὑπό τινων κακοπραγμόνων, καὶ ἐμοῦ ἀναζητοῦντος τὴν τούτων ἀπελασίαν ἐν κώμῃ παρὼν εὗρον Ζωίλον υἱὸν Διογένους. δ…