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Petition to the strategos Archias about an assault on the petitioner's wife TM 16549Oxyrhynchos

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A petition from Heraklas son of Pauseirion of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Archias. He complains that a drunken neighbour, Apollos son of Herakleides, verbally abused and assaulted his wife Taamois in front of their door before many witnesses, and he asks for redress and future protection. It is dated to year 14 of Trajan.

In English machine translation

To Archias, strategos, from Heraklas son of Pauseirion, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. On the 5th just past, late in the hour, Apollos son of Herakleides, from the same city, living in the same quarter, came at my wife Taamois while she was in front of the door, drunk, and abused her and dragged (?) her about, in the presence of very many trustworthy men, whose names I shall declare at the hearing. Therefore, submitting this report, I ask that I obtain justice, so that in future I may be kept unmolested together with my family. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus […] […]

The verb anesyren (literally 'pulled up') may mean he dragged her about or pulled up her clothing, an indecent assault. The date is restored in part and the end of the document is lost.

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 Strategus Archias). 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.36.2758

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

Ἀρχίᾳ στρατηγῷ παρὰ Ἡρακλᾶτος Παυσειρίωνος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. τῇ διελθούσῃ ε ὀψίτερον τῆς ὥρας Ἀπολλῶς Ἡρακλείδου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως γινόμενος ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ ἀμφόδῳ ἐπῆλθεν τῇ γυναικί μου Τααμόιτι οὔσῃ πρὸ τῆς θύρας μεθύων καὶ ἐξελοιδόρησεν καὶ ἀνέσυρεν αὐτήν, παρόντων πλείστων…