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Petition of a veteran kicked by a donkey TM 20980Oxyrhynchos

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A petition to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Ammonios from Lucius Pamiseus, a discharged soldier, complaining that a donkey led by a slave of Sarapion son of Dorkon kicked him on the shin as he rode into Oxyrhynchus, leaving him bedridden. He impounded the donkey after the slave fled, Sarapion asked for it back, and the petitioner seeks the official's intervention.

In English machine translation

To Tiberius Claudius Ammonios, strategos, from Lucius Pamiseus, discharged soldier. As I was going up from the country, riding on a donkey, to the city of Oxyrhynchus, on the 1st of the present month Pharmouthi of the 5th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, a slave of Sarapion son of Dorkon, following donkeys carrying stones, met me near […] of the tenth (?), and one of the donkeys kicked me on the right shin, as a result of which I have been bedridden ever since, in danger of my life. And since the slave fled, conscious of the outrage he had committed, I seized the donkey and shut it up in my own house. Following this, Sarapion asked me to give the donkey back to him. Therefore, taking refuge with you, I ask […] […] Sarapion […] […] to bring forward […] […] in safety […] […] my case […] […] is fitting, having been healed (?) […] […]

The request at the end is too damaged to reconstruct; it seems to concern security for the donkey or Sarapion and compensation for the injury. The place near which the accident happened is partly illegible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte au sujet d’une ruade). 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 · Oxyrhynchos

Τιβερίῳ Κλαυδίῳ Ἀμμωνιῳ στρατηγῷ παρὰ Λουκίου Παμισήου στρατιώτου ἀπολυσίμου. ἀναβάντος μου ἐξ ἀγροῦ, ἐπικαθημένου ὄνῳ, εἰς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλιν, τῇ α τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι τοῦ ε ἔτους Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, δοῦλος Σαραπίωνος Δόρκωνος ἀκολου…