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Petition to the riparii about a break-in by neighbours TM 20884Herakleopolis (?)506

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A petition from Aurelius Philoxenos to the officials in charge of the city's police (riparia), Leontios and Strategios, complaining that his neighbours Philoxenos and Eustephia, with accomplices, entered a storeroom whose keys were involved and took stored goods. He asks that the culprits be compelled to make restitution and that the matter be reported for lawful redress; dated AD 506, probably at Herakleopolis.

In English machine translation

To the Flavii Leontios, the most illustrious […], Strategios, the most magnificent and most glorious […], who have undertaken the riparia (police office) of the city […] […] when I had taken over the […] […] and on the day before yesterday, which is […] by day, and the keys of the same room […] […] to Philoxenos and Eustephia, neighbours […] of my wife, to bring themselves in […] […] there are stored my female […] forty-seven into his own […] […] being […], then also […] […] Since, therefore, it is not permitted to pass over in silence the outrage, [I ask for] an example of your diligence; I request and beseech […] and Eustephia and those who assisted them […] to restore to my house, and then also to me and to the […] to make known through a report […] to the magistrate through our own report […] will set forth lawful redress. I, Aurelius Philoxenos, have submitted this. After the consulship of the Flavii Sabinianus and Theodorus […]

The riparia was a late antique municipal police office with no exact English equivalent. The petitioner and one accused neighbour share the name Philoxenos.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). 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 · 506 · Herakleopolis (?)

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