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Petition to a centurion about violence and extortion by a fellow villager TM 10110Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)27. Sept. 184
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A petition from Stotoetis son of Anchophis of Soknopaiou Nesos to the centurion Aurelius Antoninus, complaining that a fellow villager, Hekysis also called Euporas, who married his kinswoman, cheats him over their shared property and forced him under threat of death to sign a written security. He asks that the man be brought to a hearing. Dated 27 September 184.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Aurelius Antoninus, centurion,
from Stotoetis son of Anchophis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos.
I suffer violence continually at the hands of a certain Hekysis, also called Euporas, from the same village, who, having done many other things against me, and moreover having entered into marriage with my kinswoman […], defrauds me in every way in our common property, an arrogant man. On top of this, when I was in a state of sluggishness (?), he forced me to make a written security for him, threatening that if I did not do it he would make an attempt on my life. Since there is such arrogance in him, and I am unable to endure it, I submit this petition and ask that he be brought for a hearing. For on the appointed day I will also prove other things greater than these. Farewell.
Year 25 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Thoth 30.
[verso]
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Centurions in Roman Egypt often received petitions from villagers about violence. The word rendered 'sluggishness' (nothria) may refer to illness or weakness.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Centurion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.amh.2.78
[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀντωνείνῳ ἑκατοντάρχῳ παρὰ Στοτοήτιος Ἀγχώφεως ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. βίαν πάσχων ἑκάστοτε ὑπὸ Ἑκύσεως ἐπικαλουμένου Εὐπορᾶ τινος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ὅστις πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα εἴς με διαπραξάμενος ἔτι καὶ τῇ συνγενίδι μου …[…]ιστου πρὸς γάμον συνελθὼν ἐν τοῖς κοιν…