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Petition of Aurelia Tausiris to a riparius against her husband Paulos TM 15218Senekeleu (Oxyrhynchites)350

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Petition from Aurelia Tausiris of the village of Senekeleu to Flavius Eulogios, riparius (police official) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, complaining of unlawful acts by her husband Paulos son of Kastor. The text breaks off after the opening of the complaint; it dates to AD 350.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Sergius and Nigrinianus, the most illustrious (?) […] To Flavius Eulogios, riparius of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelia Tausiris daughter of Pekysis, from the village of Senekeleu in the 3rd pagus of the same nome. Things contrary to the laws were done against me by the man who ought not to be called my husband, Paulos son of Kastor. Having (?) treated as his wife (?) the one whom […] […] [… lines lost …]

A riparius was a late Roman local police official responsible for public order. The petitioner pointedly calls Paulos 'the man who ought not to be called my husband'; the details of her grievance are lost.

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 riparius). 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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p.harr.2.218

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 350 · Senekeleu (Oxyrhynchites)

ὑπατείας Σεργίου καὶ Νιγρινιανοῦ τῶν λαμ……[…] Φλαουίωι Εὐλογίωι ῥιπαρίῳ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ταυσιρίης Πεκυσίου ἀπὸ κώμης Σενεκελεὺ γ πάγου τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ. ἀλλότρια τῶν νόμων διεπράξατο κατʼ ἐμοῦ ὁ μὴ καλεῖσθαι ὀφείλων ἀνήρ μου Παῦλος υἱὸςΚάστορος. σύμβιον οὖν ᾧ προσηνε […]…