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Draft of a police report to Apollonios concerning suspects in a murder TM 19614Hermopolis (?)113 - 120

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Draft of a police report addressed to the strategos Apollonios, recounting the detention of suspects, including the sons of Anoubion from the Heptakomia, in connection with a murder near a village called Nabo. It mentions dates in Mesore and the epagomenal days and the royal scribe of the Lykopolite nome. It dates to AD 113-120, probably from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] still […] was pasturing (?) […] shepherd (?) […] of a certain village Nabo, those who […] I compelled [them] to the guard-post ⟦…⟧ […] […] from the account (?), and that the culprits should come, saying […] ⟦to produce the culprits⟧, those saying […] the sons of Anoubion and […] from the Heptakomia, and the rest […] I kept [them] in custody until […] Apollonios, having come, being present (?) […] […] and on the 28th of Mesore […] […] of the murder, Apollonios came […] an examination on his own behalf, having requested […] this note, to take over these men […] […] from the Heptakomia […] […] having handed over to him […] alone in the same custody […] I kept, as […] and having taken over the […] ⟦her⟧ Apollonios […] […] […] on the 5th of the epagomenal days ⟦he acted accordingly⟧ […] having written ⟦you guarded to the epistrategos⟧ […] […] ⟦knowledge of a certain matter […]⟧ having guarded […] to Apollonios, on condition that through the […] of the royal scribe of the Lykopolite nome […] whence he himself is […] another, on the 5th of the epagomenal days […] therefore he sent, giving nothing […] […] until […] to […]

The text is a heavily corrected draft with many deletions, so the sequence of events is uncertain. Apollonios is the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolite-Heptakomia district, whose archive this belongs to.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Entwurf eines Polizeiberichtes 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 113 - 120 · Hermopolis (?)

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