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Petition of Irene to the riparius over a broken promise of marriage TM 19019Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)21. Sept. 553

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A petition from Aurelia Irene, daughter of Ioannes, of the village of Aphrodite, to the riparius (local police official) Flavius Victor. She complains that the coppersmith Makarios swore an oath to marry her and then mocked her, and asks that he be held in custody until a court decides the case; his mother Tkouikouis is also named. It was written for her by Aurelius Enoch because she was illiterate, in September 553.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Flavius Victor, the venerable riparius of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, † Aurelia Irene daughter of Ioannes, her mother being Thetous, from the same village of Aphrodite, greetings. The persons listed below have dared unlawfully to insult me, and he swore an oath to me, the said Irene, saying: "I take you as my wife." But now I have been mocked by him. Therefore I submit these my libelli to your diligence. I therefore beseech and beg it to order him to be held in custody until a judicial decision. I, Aurelia Irene daughter of Ioannes, the aforesaid, (submit) the libelli as stated above. I, Aurelius Enoch son of Herakleios, at her request wrote on her behalf, as she does not know letters. They are: Makarios, coppersmith, and Tkouikouis his mother. After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, in the twelfth year, Thoth 24, of the second indiction. [verso] † Libelli of Irene daughter of Ioannes †

The riparius was a late Roman official responsible for public order and arrests. The Greek is ungrammatical, mixing plural and singular for the accused.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pétition analogue). 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 · 21. Sept. 553 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

[r] Φλαυίῳ Βίκτορι τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ ῥιπαρίῳ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ † Αὐρηλία Εἰρήνη Ἰωάννου, ἐκ μητρὸς Θητοῦτος, ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Ἀφροδίτης, χαίρειν. οἱ ἑξῆς ὑποτεταγμένοι τετολμηκὼς παρανόμως ὑβρίζειν καὶ ὅρκον ἀποθέσθαι μοι τῇ εἰρημένῃ Εἰρήνῃ ὅτι· λαμβάνω σε εἰς …