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Fragment of a petition to the strategos Apollonios TM 19474Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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Fragment of a petition or submission addressed to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome. It mentions landholders, overseers (epimeletai) and people acting recklessly, and seems to ask for an order to stop some activity, but the details are lost.

In English machine translation

To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, from […] […] from there […] of those deliberately […] bringing (?) the necessary care […] they may set over each landholder […]. Since therefore, like someone […] they behave with madness (?) […] and even if they themselves are harmed […] to order that it be stopped […] to dispute […] in the city; but in the […] of the same overseers […] authority and everything […] as more experienced […] for this […] is able […] they may take charge of the […] and with all good order […] to show […] of the overseers […] of the […] and knowledge […] and […] the full assurance […] on these terms and […] which I shall set over (?) […] [… ? lines lost …]

Apollonios was strategos of this nome in the early 2nd century AD (c. AD 113-120), the period of the Giessen archive; the record gives no explicit date. The opening address is wholly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer Eingabe an 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.

p.giss.1.87

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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