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Petition to the strategos about an opponent's failure to appear TM 17196Hermopolites6. - 27. Sept. 221

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A petition from Aurelius Peues son of Ibois, of a village in the Hermopolite nome, to the strategos Aurelius Sarapion also called Apollonianos. A woman who was trying to seize property belonging to him and his sister had sworn to come to the metropolis by 8 Thoth to settle the dispute but failed to appear, and Peues asks that his statement be filed as evidence. It dates to September AD 221.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Sarapion also called Apollonianos, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, from Aurelius Peues son of Ibois, his mother being Taapollos, from the village of […] of the Lower Kosseites toparchy. My mother's mother Taapollos […] both to me and to my sister by the same mother, Aias, […] Sarapion(?) […] of our common mother nothing […] appointed […] of the opponents […] attacks our property, trying to seize it. And when an inquiry into these matters took place, she gave a written undertaking under oath to come up to the metropolis by the 8th of the present month Thoth and not to depart until the matters in dispute between us were brought to an end, or else be liable to the oath. Since, then, I [am present], but she has not appeared up to now, I request, testifying to this very fact [and] submitting this petition, that it be placed on record as evidence […] […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus […]

The middle of the text, explaining the family background of the dispute, is badly damaged, so the identity of the woman who failed to appear is unclear. The emperor named in the date is Elagabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus).

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 a Strategus). 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 · 6. - 27. Sept. 221 · Hermopolites

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