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Petition of Stotoetis, farmer, to the prefect Baebius Iuncinus about violence TM 10188Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)211 - 212 (?)

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A petition to the prefect of Egypt, Aurelius Baebius Iuncinus, from Stotoetis son of Satyros, a farmer from the city of the Arsinoites. After a long flattering preamble praising the prefect's protection of farmers of public land under Emperor Caracalla, he begins to complain of serious violence he suffered, but the text breaks off.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Baebius Iuncinus, prefect of Egypt, from Stotoetis son of Satyros son of Stotoetis, farmer of the city of the Arsinoites. Continuing in all things, lord prefect, you administer the common interest and the private affairs of each, so that through your most admirable wisdom the whole province has been filled with good things, especially since you protect those who farm the public land of our lord the eternal, invincible Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus, and every wrong has been cut out by you. For your benevolence encourages those who have been wronged to approach you without fear. For those who suffered greatly from the violence of certain persons in former times, and those who from the […] have shared in this good and unapproachable (?) legislation, will neither be subjected to violence by the present officials, nor will those officials have a bolder intent […] Having suffered no ordinary violence, lord prefect, […] of my paternal uncle […] […] […]

The emperor named, Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus, is Caracalla. The substance of the complaint is lost; the reference to a paternal uncle is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Statthalter). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 211 - 212 (?) · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλίῳ Βαιβίῳ Ἰουγκείνῳ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Στοτοήτεως υἱοῦ Σατύρου Στοτοήτεως γεωργοῦ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως. πάντα διατελῶν, ἡγεμὼν δέσποτα, κοινῇ καὶ ἑκάστῳ τὰ ἴδια πρυτανεύεις ὡς ἐκ τῆς θαυμασιωτάτης σου συνέσεως τὴν ὅλην ἐπαρχίαν ἀγαθῶν πεπληρῶσθαι, μάλιστα συντηροῦντός σου…