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Petition to the chief of police about assault and insult TM 14428Arsinoites

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Petition from Patermouthion son of Akousilaos, a Macedonian from Ibion Argaiou in the Arsinoite nome, to the chief of police (epistates of the phylakitai), complaining that a man and others insulted and beat him. He asks that the village epistates be ordered to send the accused for judgement; an official docket orders the epistates to do justice. Dated year 26 of Caesar (Augustus), Epeiph 12.

In English machine translation

[…] to the epistates of the phylakitai, from Patermouthion son of Akousilaos, Macedonian, of the (troops of?) Nepheros, one of those from Ibion Argaiou in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. […] request (?) […] […] […] together with others […] he insulted me, (striking me) with many blows on whatever parts of my body they happened to fall. Therefore I ask, if it seems good to you, that you order a letter to be written to the epistates of the village to send the accused to you, so that I may obtain justice from you and he may meet with the fitting punishment as a warning to others, and that I may be helped. Farewell. (Docket:) Write to the epistates to do what is just. […] Year 26 of Caesar, Epeiph 12.

The epistates of the phylakitai was the police official of the district. The line before the date (kollo kordak mach) is abbreviated and obscure, left untranslated.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den ἐπιστάτης φυλακιτῶν wegen Körperverletzung). 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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