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Petition to a strategos about burglary of a slave woman's room TM 17901Oxyrhynchites16. Febr. - 28. Aug. 60

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A petition from Theon son of Dionysios to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Asklepiades, reporting a second burglary of the room where his slave Epicharis lived in Nikanor's house in the Goose-herds' quarter, during which bedding and clothing were stolen. It dates to AD 60 in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

To Tiberius Claudius Asklepiades, strategos, from Theon son of Dionysios. On another occasion too, certain persons having made a criminal attack on the room in which my slave Epicharis lives, in the house of a certain Nikanor in the Goose-herds' quarter, and having carried off some of Epicharis' belongings, I came forward and lodged the appropriate memorandum. And now on the 21st of Mecheir of the present 6th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, while I was away from home, in the same manner certain persons made a criminal attack on the said room and carried off from my slave Epicharis a linen mattress, likewise a dilasson (?), a thin tunic, another of tow […] of Epicharis by […] this […] by the accomplices (?) […] […] […]

The theft occurred on Mecheir 21 of Nero's 6th year (15 February AD 60). "Dilasson" is an uncertain textile term, perhaps a garment or cloth with a double weave or fringe.

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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p.oxy.58.3916

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. Febr. - 28. Aug. 60 · Oxyrhynchites

Τιβερίωι Κλαυδίωι Ἀσκληπιάδῃ στρατηγῶι, παρὰ Θέωνος τοῦ Διονυσίου. καὶ ἄλλοτε μὲν ἐπιβαλόμενοί τινες κακουργότερον ἐφʼ ὃν ἡ δούλη μου Ἐπίχαρις καταγείνεται οἶκον Νικάνορός τινος οἰκίας ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Χηνοβοσκῶν καὶ ἀπενεγκάμενοί τινα τῶν τῆς Ἐπιχαρίου, προελθὼν κατεχώρισα τὸ ἁρμόζον…