Petition (?), Roman CE iii (ca. 202-204)
To the basilikos grammateus and acting strategos Kanopos Asklepiades, from the temple priests Ammonios Horos (?) and [...]
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Petition of priests of Soknobraisis at Bakchias to the acting strategos TM 14148Bakchias (Arsinoites)Roman CE iii (ca. 202-204)
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A fragmentary petition or protest from priests of the god Soknobraisis at Bakchias, including Ammonios son of Horos, addressed to Kanopos also called Asklepiades, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome and acting strategos. It mentions the village scribe of Bakchias and the priests' performance of worship of the gods, but the specific complaint is lost.
In English machine translation
To Kanopos also called Asklepiades, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, acting also in the duties of the strategia,
from Ammonios son of Horos and […] […] priests
of Soknobraisis, the great, great god […] in
the allotment(?), village scribe of the village of Bakchias […]
elder(?) in order that private […]
having been decided by this […] we performed the worship of the gods […]
[…] and to those who have died(?) […]
according to the […] we submitted […]
[…strat]egoi(?) and […]
to send instructions […]
[…] to devote time(?) […]
Marcus Herm[…]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
One record describes it as a protest letter of priests, another as a possible petition; it dates the text more loosely to about AD 202-204. Soknobraisis is a local form of the crocodile god Sobek worshipped at Bakchias.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protestschreiben von Priestern). 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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