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Fragmentary letter or complaint addressed to Apollos, protokometes (village headman) of Aphrodito, accusing a former protokometes named Senouthis of wrongdoing, seizing and carrying off property in the village, and running up debts. The writer asks that Senouthis be removed and someone suitable appointed in his place. It dates to AD 524-547.
A protokometes was a leading village headman; Apollos is the father of Dioskoros of Aphrodito. The beginning of each line is lost, so the exact phrasing of the request is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † […]τῇ ὑμῶν ἐξουσίᾳ καὶ τῇ τάξει ὡς Σενούθις ὁ πρώην κατασταθεὶς πρωτοκωμήτης […]…νοι ἐπὶ τῇ κώμῃ πῇ μὲν ἀδίκων πῇ δὲ ἀρπάζων καὶ ἀποφέρων […]ιος καὶ καταξιώσῃ σου ἡ θαυμασιότης τοῦτον ἀποδιῶξαι τοῦ πράγματος […]καταστῆσαι εἰς τόπον αὐτοῦ ὀφείλοντα τὴν χρείαν ταύτην […]σαι ἐ…
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