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Petition to the overseer of the peace enclosing a prefect's order TM 15399Oxyrhynchos

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A petition from Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Silvanus of Oxyrhynchus to Aurelius Dioskoros, the local overseer of the peace, asking him to act on the prefect's instructions. It quotes the order of Flavius Julius Ausonius, prefect of Augustamnica, and the beginning of Ptolemaios' original petition to him, which is largely lost.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantius for the 3rd time and Constans for the 2nd time, the Augusti, Phamenoth. To Aurelius Dioskoros, overseer of the peace of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Silvanus, from the same city. Having appended a copy of what I reported to my lord the most eminent prefect of Augustamnica, Flavius Julius Ausonius, I submit this petition, asking that action be taken in accordance with what has been ordered. The copy is as follows: Of the orders: Flavius Julius Ausonius to the overseer of the peace of the Oxyrhynchite nome. You will learn from the attached document whom Ptolemaios accused when he submitted a petition to my Devotion. Take care therefore, if you find that he is telling the truth, […] Farewell. Of the report: To Flavius Julius Ausonius, prefect of Augustamnica, from Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Silvanus, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites. […] against my humble self […] […] […]

The consulship of Constantius III and Constans II dates the text to AD 342. The overseer of the peace (epoptes eirenes) was a local police official of the 4th century.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Correspondence). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου τὸ γ καὶ Κώνσταντος τὸ β τῶν Αὐγούστων, Φαμενώθ. Αὐρηλίῳ Διοσκόρῳ ἐπόπτῃ εἰρήνης Ὀξυρυγχείτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πτολεμαίου Σιλβανοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ὧν ἀνήνεγκα ἐπὶ τὸν κύριόν μου τὸν διασημότατον ἡγεμόνα τῆς Αὐγουσταμνικῆς Φλάουϊον Ἰούλιον…