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A sworn declaration by Pouseimis, chief of police of the farmstead of Dama, to the strategos Eudoros, stating that he has posted a copy of the prefect Sempronius Liberalis' letter ordering outsiders staying there to return to their own home districts. It was written for him by a village scribe because he was illiterate, on 27 October 158 in the Arsinoite nome.
The object description names the strategos as Diodorus, but the text names Eudoros; Diodoros is the assistant. "Eis ten idian" refers to one's registered place of origin (idia), to which people were ordered to return.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration Concerning an Edict). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Declaration on oath addressed to Diodorus, strategos of the divisions of Themistes and Polemon, by a village police officer, that he had put up at a certain farmstead a copy of an edict of the praefect Sempronius Liberalis ordering persons who were staying away from their homes t…
Εὐδώρῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων παρὰ Πουσεῖμις Ὀρσενούφεως τοῦ Πετεραίπιος ἀρχεφόδου ἐποικίου Δάμα. ὀμνύω τὴν Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς τύχην προτεθεικέναι ἐν τῷ ἐποικίῳ ἀντίγραφον ἐπιστολῆς γραφείσης ὑπὸ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου …
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