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Petition to a public advocate about an assault over straying pigs TM 20367Taampemu (Oxyrhynchites)1. Mai 336
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A petition from Aurelia Allous of the village of Taampemou to Flavius Julianus, public advocate of the Oxyrhynchite nome, dated 1 May 336. She complains that when her two pigs strayed into an irrigation channel shared with a neighbour, Pabanos, he came at them with a blade intending to kill them and apparently turned on her as well.
In English machine translation
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In the consulship of Virius Nepotianus and Tettius Facundus, the most illustrious, Pachon 6.
To Flavius Julianus, acting as public advocate (syndikos) of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelia Allous daughter of Thonios, from the village of Taampemou in the 5th pagus. In the evening hours of yesterday our two pigs, making their way onto our land, got into the water channel of the irrigation machine of our fields and those of a certain Pabanos from the same village. The aforesaid Pabanos, happening to be there with a small sword (?) in his hands and wishing to kill the pigs, and this […] although in no way wronged by the pigs, refraining from […] against the pigs, [because] they had come onto me, wishing to […] me […] unless by some providence the […] but nevertheless of the oxen […] I was […] by him […] having cut (?) as from the […] some he leads aside […] with insolence […]
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The syndikos was a local public advocate who handled minor disputes in the 4th century. The second half of the complaint is badly damaged, so the exact injury done by Pabanos is unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Public Advocate). 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.oxy.6.901dupl
[r] ὑπατείας Οὐιβίου Νεπωτιανοῦ καὶ Τεττίου Φακούνδου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Παχὼν ϛ. Φλαουίῳ Ἰουλιανῷ διοικοῦντι συνδικίαν Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀλλοῦτος Θωνίου ἀπὸ κώμης Τααμπέμου ε πάγου. ἑσπεριναῖς ὥραις τῇ χθὲς ἡμέρᾳ ἡμέτεροι χοῖροι δύο τὴν ὁρμὴν ποιούμενοι ἐπὶ ἡμέτερον ἔδαφος …