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Public physician's report on wounds of shipyard overseers assaulted by villagers TM 17721Hermopolis322

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A report by Eudaimon, a public physician of Hermopolis, to the strategos and exactor Herakleon. Sent with an official's assistant after two overseers of the Kleopatra shipyard complained of being assaulted by villagers of Tertonepa, he describes his examination of the victims' wounds, beginning with an injury to the left ear; the rest is lost. Written in Hermopolis in AD 322.

In English machine translation

In the year after the consulship of our masters Licinius Augustus for the 6th time and Licinius the most illustrious Caesar for the 2nd time, the consuls to be announced, second rotation (?). To Herakleon, strategos or exactor of the Hermopolite nome, from Eudaimon son of Pinoution, public physician, one of those in the fixed number of approved physicians of Hermopolis under your authority. Having been instructed by your diligence, through Timotheos son of Mouses, assistant of your office, following the submission of a petition by Adelphios son of Adelphios and […]on son of Sarapion, overseers of the shipbuilding of Kleopatra, who declared that they had suffered an assault at the hands of the people from the village of Tertonepa and asked that the condition of the wounds of those who had been struck be examined by a public physician and that what was found be reported in writing, I and the aforementioned assistant went there and on the basis of personal inspection we report: I, the physician, that I have examined on the left ear […] having begun […] […] […] on the […] […] of the […] […]

Public physicians in Roman Egypt were called on by officials to inspect injuries or corpses and report in writing, as evidence in legal disputes. The phrase 'second rotation' (deutera amoibe) is obscure and may refer to a turn of duty among the approved physicians.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bericht eines Arztes). 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 · 322 · Hermopolis

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Λικινίου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Λικινίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ β, μέλλουσιν ὑπάτοις δευτέρᾳ ἀμοιβῇ. Ἡρακλέωνι στρατηγῷ ἤτοι ἐξάκτορι Ἑρμοπολίτου παρὰ Εὐδαίμονος Πινουτίωνος δημοσίου ἰατροῦ τῶν ἐν τῷ ὡρισμένῳ ἀριθμῷ τῶν δοκίμων τῆς ὑπὸ σὲ Ἑρμ…