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A petition from Aurelius Horion to Flavius Dioskoros, overseer of the peace of the Oxyrhynchite nome, complaining that Kastor and others from the village of Nesmimis encroached on his two arouras of land and moved the old boundary markers. He asks that they be summoned and prosecuted according to the laws. It was written at Oxyrhynchos in Hathyr (October-November) AD 341.
The 'overseer of the peace' (epoptes eirenes) was a 4th-century local police official. The aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.68 acres.
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 the Overseer of the Peace). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας Ἀντωνίου Μαρκελλίνου καὶ Πετρωνίου Προβίνου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Ἁθὺρ […] Φλαουίῳ Διοσκόρῳ ἐπόπτῃ εἰρήνης Ὀξυρυγχείτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ὡρίωνος Ἡρακλ[…] ας… γῆν κέκτημαι ἐν ἀρούραις δυσὶ περὶ κώμην Νεσμῖμιν, ὧν τὴν νομὴν πολλ… […]… ἐπὶ τοῖς παγεῖσι καὶ συντεθεῖσι …ρ… […]…, ἀλλʼ …
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