Two official reports addressed to Flavius Iulianus, logistes (city curator) of Oxyrhynchus, in 331. In the first, the monthly presidents of the builders' guild report on their inspection of a courtyard in a dispute involving Dios and Didyme; in the second, four public physicians report the head and arm injuries they found on Aurelius Paesis of the village of Pela.
In English machine translation
[1]
In the consulship of Iunius Bassus and Flavius Ablabius, the most illustrious prefects, Pauni […].
To Flavius Iulianus, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius Panares son of He…onetes and He[…]es son of Mouros, both of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, monthly presidents of the builders. We were instructed by you, on the basis of a petition submitted to you by Dios son of Theoras, to go to a place in the same city in the quarter of the Dromos of Thoeris and to inspect a courtyard
sold (?) to him by Didyme daughter of Titus
of the same city, lying to the north of the dwelling house of the same Didyme, and to report to you in writing what we found […].
Therefore, having gone there,
we inspected […] to the north […] of the courtyard
of the house of the same Didyme […] north
wall of the house of the same Didyme, being free […] of the northern
side […] of the courtyard […] built (?). Therefore we report.
Aurelii […]
[…]
[…]
[2]
In the consulship of Iunius Bassus and Flavius
Ablabius, the most illustrious […]
To Flavius Iulianus, logistes, and
Claudius Hermeias, ekdikos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from the Aurelii Theoninos and
Heron and Silvanus and Didymos,
public physicians of the illustrious
and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites. We were instructed
by your diligence, on the basis of a petition submitted by
Aurelius Paesis son of Senenouphis
from the village of Pela, to examine
his condition and
to report in writing. Therefore
we examined him on a pallet
in the public accounting office,
having on the right part
of the crown of the head wounds […]
[…] membrane,
and on the right part of the
forehead a swelling, and on the
forearm of the left hand
a bruise with a scratch, and on
the forearm of the right hand
a small bruise, which we report.
In the aforesaid consulship, Pauni 20.
I, Aurelius Theoninos, have reported as stated above.
I, Aurelius Heron, have reported as stated above.
I, Aurelius Silvanus, have reported as stated above.
The logistes was the curator of the city; the ekdikos was the city's legal defender. Physicians' reports like the second served as evidence for assault petitions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reports to a Logistes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.