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Petition to the strategos about a calf stolen near Kerkesoucha TM 12019Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt66 A.D.

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A petition from Ammonios son of Eirenaios, a farmer of public land at Karanis, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Androtimos. He reports that robbers drove off a full-grown red calf from his cattle grazing near Kerkesoucha and asks that the local hegoumenos be ordered to help him search for it. It dates to Mecheir of Nero's 12th year (AD 66).

In English machine translation

To Tiberius Claudius Androtimos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Ammonios son of Eirenaios, one of the public farmers from Karanis. During the night before the 4th of Mecheir of the current 12th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, certain persons, attacking in robber fashion the cattle which I have grazing on green fodder in the plain of Kerkesoucha, in the holding of Harpaesis son of Herakleios, drove off from me a full-grown red-coloured calf. Therefore I ask that it be written to the hegoumenos of Karanis to search for it together with me. Farewell. (2nd hand?) I, Ammonios son of Eirenaios, have submitted the above memorandum. Year 12 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Mecheir […]

The hegoumenos was a local official, probably a village police or administrative head, with no exact English equivalent. 'Public farmers' were cultivators of state-owned land.

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 Strategus). 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 to a Strategos

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 5524 · 66 A.D. · Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Petition to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Androtimos by an Ammonios, cultivator of state lands from Karanis, requesting that an order be sent to the hegoumenos of Karanis directing him to assist in the search for a calf stolen from Ammonios near Kerkesoucha

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p.mich.9.523

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Karanis (Arsinoites)

Τιβερίωι Κλαυδίωι Ἀνδροτίμωι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ἀμμωνίου τοῦ Εἰρηναίου τῶν ἀπὸ Καρανίδος δημοσίων γεωργῶν. νυκτὶ τῇ φερούσῃ εἰς τὴν δ τοῦ Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιβ ἔτους Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος ἐπιβαλόντες τινὲς λῃστρικῷ …