One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20740
Oath of a village police chief that wanted men are not in Senokomis TM 20740Senokomis (Oxyrhynchites)238 - 244
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Sworn declaration by Aurelius Pakreuris, chief of police of the village of Senokomis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the two eirenarchs (peace officers) of the nome. He swears by the fortune of the emperor Gordian III that four men from Armenthoi in the Hermopolite nome, wanted by their fellow villagers, are not to be found in his village.
In English machine translation
To the Aurelii Apollonios also called Klaudianos, and however he is styled, prytanis, and Sarapion also called Apollonianos, both former gymnasiarchs, eirenarchs of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius Pakreuris, whose mother is Taonnophris, chief of police of the village of Senokomis.
I swear by the fortune of Marcus Antonius Gordianus Caesar the lord that the persons sought by the people of the village of Armenthoi in the Hermopolite nome, the Aurelii Kopreas son of Areios, and Kopreas son of Onnophris, and Apion son of another Areios, and Ampheion son of Ammonio[…], being from the same Armenthoi, are not in our village nor in the same […]
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The archephodos was the village police chief responsible for arresting wanted persons; eirenarchs were nome-level officials for public order. The end of the oath is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Search for Criminals). 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.1.80
Αὐρηλίοις Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῶι καὶ Κλαυδιανῷ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει πρυτάνει καὶ Σαραπίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἀπολλωνιανῷ, ἀμφοτέροις γυμνασιαρχήσασι εἰρηνάρχαις Ὀξυρυγχίτου, Αὐρήλιος Πακρεῦρις χρηματίζων μητρὸς Ταοννώφριος ἀρχέφοδος κώμης Σενοκώμεως. ὀμνύω τὴν Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Γορδιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρ…