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Petition from Psenamounis, a priest of Bakchias in the Fayum, to the epistrategos Lucceius Ofellianus. He complains that although he was exempted from dike work in the 18th year of Antoninus Pius by order of the prefect Sempronius Liberalis because of his poor eyesight, the village scribe and the official in charge of dike labour have recently assigned him to it again.
The ekboleus chomaton was the local official who conscripted men for the compulsory annual work on dikes and canals. The 18th year of Antoninus Pius is AD 154/155.
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 an Epistrategos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The priest Psenamounis, of Bacchias, complains to the epistrategos Lucceius Ofellianus that he has been improperly assigned by the ekboleus chomaton to work on the dike corvȨe, despite an exemption from such work which had been granted to him at least 11 years previously because …
Λοκκείῳ Ὀφελλιανῷ τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Ψεναμούνεως Ψεναμούνεως τοῦ Ψεναμούνεως ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος ἱερέως. ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ ιη ἔτους θεοῦ Αἰλίου Ἀντωνείνου ἐξ ἐνκελεύσεως Σεμπρωνίου Λιβεραλίου τοῦ ἡγεμονεύσαντος ἀπελύθην ἅμα ἄλλοις ἀνδράσιν ὡς ἀσθενὴς τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς· ὁ οὖν τῆς…
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