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Petition to the nyktostrategoi about an assault on the petitioner's wife TM 15353Oxyrhynchos2. Febr. 326

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A petition from Aurelius Thonios of Oxyrhynchus to the city's night police chiefs, complaining that a woman named Tapesis and her slave Victora attacked his wife at home, tearing her clothes and injuring her. He asks that a midwife be sent to examine and report on her condition and that the attackers give sureties pending a case before the prefect of Egypt. It dates to 2 February 326.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantine Augustus for the 7th time and Constantius the most noble Caesar for the 1st time, Mecheir 8. To the Aurelii Aphthonios and Timotheos, both nyktostrategoi of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Thonios son of Onnophris, from the same […] city. Yesterday, while our wife was at home, a certain Tapesis, together with her own slave woman Victora, in the evening hours, she who lives far away from our house, came upon her and heaped unspeakable outrages on my wife, so that not only was her clothing torn but also her body, there having been brought […] her to my wife […] of gold. Since therefore […], I submit this petition, asking […] that a midwife sent by you should come and record her condition and report in writing, and that when the report has been made and the outrage made known, they should provide sureties, so that if anything should happen to my wife the proper redress may be obtained before the undefiled court of my lord the most perfect prefect of Egypt, Tiberius Flavius Laetus.

Nyktostrategoi were municipal officials responsible for night-time policing. A damaged passage mentions gold, perhaps an item taken in the attack.

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 Nyctostrategi). 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.oxy.51.3620

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Febr. 326 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου Αὐγούστου τὸ ζ καὶ Κωνσταντίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α, Μεχεὶρ η. Αὐρηλίοις Ἀφθονίῳ καὶ Τιμοθέῳ ἀμφοτέροις νυκτοστρατήγοις τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Θωνίου Ὀννώφριος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς […] πόλεως. κατὰ …