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Petition about a stone-throwing injury to a son fetching water TM 11188BacchiasA.D. 224

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Petition from Aurelius Ammonios of Bakchias to the strategos Aurelius Didymos, reporting that his son Satyros was hit on the head by a stone thrown by unknown villagers while fetching drinking water from distant springs. He asks that the complaint be registered to preserve his right to act against the culprits once identified. Written in AD 224 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Didymos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Aurelius Ammonios son of Heron, his mother being Thaisas, from the village of Bakchias. A few days ago, when my son Satyros went out around sunset to fill water for drinking, since there is no Nile water in the aforesaid village but it is filled from springs far away, some people from the same village, whom I do not know, who were talking among themselves, one of them threw a stone, and my son, though standing far off, was wounded on the head. Therefore I submit this petition and ask that it be entered in the register as evidence, so that my right of action may be preserved against those who shall appear to be responsible. Farewell. Year 4 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 9.

The remark that the village had no Nile water is taken as evidence that desert-edge Fayum villages were no longer reached by irrigation in the 3rd century. The petition seeks registration only, not immediate action, since the attackers were unknown.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte pour coups). 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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Petition concerning an attack

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · 72068 · A.D. 224 · Bacchias

Aurelius Ammonius sends a petition to the office of the strategus to complain against the unknown persons who caused his son's head injury. The text is a further indication that by the 3rd century the villages situated at the edge of the desert were no longer irrigated by the Nil…

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 6. Sept. 224 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλίῳ Διδύμῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀμμωνίου Ἥρωνος μητρὸς Θαισᾶτος ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος. πρὸ ὀλίγων τούτων ἡμερῶν, τοῦ υἱοῦ μου Σατύρου περὶ δυσμὰς ἡλίου ἐξελθόντος εἰς τὸ γεμίσαι ὕδωρ εἰς πιεῖν, διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ κώμῃ νειλιαῖον ὕδωρ μὴ εἶναι…