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Petition of Aphynchis about an assault by a cake-seller TM 16877Oxyrhynchos28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 218

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A petition from Aurelius Aphynchis of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Aurelius Harpokration, complaining that the cake-seller Achilleus wounded the lip of his son's slave woman Sarapias and then insulted him and hit him on the head with a stone. He asks that Achilleus be brought before the official so that the slave may receive justice and treatment. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 218.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Harpokration, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Aphynchis son of Sarapas, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. On this present day, having learned that Achilleus, cake-seller, had attacked Sarapias, slave of my minor son, and had wounded her on the lip, I went to him at once and remonstrated with him about such great insolence of his, and he attacked me too, and insulted me and abused me, and not only that, but he also struck me with a stone on the head. Therefore, submitting this petition, I ask that you order him to be brought before you and that you proceed against the outrages he has dared to commit, so that the slave girl may obtain justice and medical care. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, Phaophi. (Signed) I, Aurelius Aphynchis, have submitted […]

This is a duplicate copy of the same petition. The emperor named is Elagabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), whose second regnal year began in late August 218.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition of Aphynchis). 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 · 28. Sept. - 27. Okt. 218 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Ἁρποκρατίωνι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀφύγχιος Σαραπᾶτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. τῇ ἐνεστώσῃ ἡμέρᾳ μαθὼν Ἀχιλλέα πλακουντᾶν ἐπελθόντα Σαραπιάδι δούλῃ τοῦ ἀφήλικός μου υἱοῦ καὶ τετραυματικέναι αὐτὴν κατὰ τοῦ χείλους ἐξαυτῆς γενομένῳ μοι πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ λογοποιουμένῳ…