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Petition to a night-commander about assault and theft by a painter TM 18221Hermopolis29. Okt. 504

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A petition from Aurelius Iosephios son of Phoibammon, a farmer of Hermopolis, to Flavius Victor, night-commander of the southern quarter of the city. He complains that a painter named Dionysios beat him severely and sent his son to his house at sunset to steal, apparently including seed grain for his land.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the consulship of Flavius Cethegus, vir clarissimus, Hathyr 2, 13th indiction. To Flavius Victor, the venerable nyktostrategos of the southern quarter of the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Iosephios son of Phoibammon, farmer from the same city. If the vigilance of the laws did not stand in the way of those who attempt to do wrong, all would run headlong into madness and into other wrongdoings. Since, therefore, a certain Dionysios, a painter by trade, dared, against all the laws, to beat me with blows so that the wounds inflicted are visible over my whole body, and not only that, but also to send his own son to my home at sunset to rob […] of all the […] the seed for sowing of my arable land, therefore […] your […] [verso] Petition of Iosephios son of Phoibammon

The nyktostrategos was a municipal police official responsible for public order, originally at night. The end of the petition, including the request, 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 Angabe an einen Nyktostrategen). 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 · 29. Okt. 504 · Hermopolis

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