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Petition of a woman to the strategos Apollonios about a night intrusion TM 19411Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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Petition from a woman of the nome capital to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome. While her husband Peteesipos was away on a trading trip to the Oasis and she was managing the household with her seven children, a woman named Tatomgos came to her house at night with others, apparently searching for something, and later also to her farmstead and her sister-in-law's house.

In English machine translation

To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, from […], daughter of (?) Pachoumis, one of those from the metropolis. My husband […] Peteesipos having gone away to the Oasis for the sake of trade, […] of my […] and, as mother of seven children, I was attending to the management of my household. When the night of the 24th to the 25th of the present month came, […] the door being shut, while I was inside with […] […] they learned (?) that Tatomgos daughter of Seias had come, bringing […] Miysi… and that she came to my house […] […] her husband […] Thotsytmis […]. When they saw not even a trace, and the … having happened, they went to my farmstead and there [seeing not] even a trace they went away, and Tatomgos approached […] of the chief of police, at the house of the sister of my husband […] […]

The left side of every line is lost, so the precise grievance and the role of the chief of police (archiphylax) are uncertain. Apollonios was strategos in the early 2nd century AD, during the Jewish revolt period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe einer Frau an den Strategen Apollonios). 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 · Apollonopolites Heptakomias

Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι Ἀπολλωνοπολίτου ἑπτακωμίας παρὰ[…]Παχούμιος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως. τοῦ ἀνδρός μου […]Πετεησιπῶτος ἀποστάντος εἰς Ὀᾶσιν ἐνπορίας χάριν […]ἐμῶν καὶ μήτηρ τέκνων ἑπτὰ προσεῖχον ταῖς τῆς οἰκίας μου οἰκονομίαις. νυκτὸς δὲ ἐνστάσης τῆς κδ εἰς τὴν κε τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος…