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Declaration of a ward official on the search for runaway mine-workers TM 15393Herakleopolis

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A declaration by Aurelius Pathermouthis, ward official of the Apollonios quarter of Herakleopolis, to the nome strategos. Following the prefect Bellicius Peregrinus's order to hunt for runaway mine-workers, he reports that after searching the city with the night-strategos and a visiting imaginifer, none were found.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius […]…nes, former hypomnematographos, strategos of the Herakleopolite nome, from Aurelius Pathermouthis son of Anoubion, from Herakleopolis, systates of the Apollonios quarter for the current year 3 and 2. Since my lord the most eminent prefect Bellicius Peregrinus has ordered that the runaway mine-workers be searched for, having of necessity searched through the whole city [… with …] the night-strategos and the visiting imaginifer Kronammon, I declare that no such persons have been found here. Year 3 of Diocletian and year 2 of Maximian, our lords the Augusti, Hathyr 10. I, Aurelius Pathermouthis, have submitted this.

A systates was a local ward official; an imaginifer was a soldier who carried the emperor's image. The mine-workers (metallikoi) were probably convicts condemned to the mines.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration Concerning Metallarii). 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.50.3571

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Herakleopolis

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