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Public notice for the search for runaway slaves TM 21056Oasis Parva1. Sept. 150

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A public notice issued by Sarapion, strategos of the Small Oasis, repeating a notice from Hermaios also called Dryton, strategos of the Busirite nome, about runaway slaves partly owned by Arabion also called Ischyrion. Officials and guards are ordered to search for the slaves (Artemidoros, Isidoros and Martilla) and bring them in; it dates to Thoth 4 of year 14 of Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

9 From Sarapion, strategos of the Oasis of the Seven Nomes […] copy (?), likewise of public notices concerning the search for […] slaves […] written […] by strategoi of other nomes in the present 14th year […] of Antoninus Caesar the lord. It is as follows: Hermaios also called Dryton, strategos of the Busirite nome […] concerning the search for the slaves listed below, belonging in part to Arabion […] also called Ischyrion, son of Achilleus, from the village of […] [margin] 3 […] with […] according to the […] […] of that nome Arestaimen (?) […] being […] I have publicly posted […] and […] through […] having come forward, not thus (?). Orders are given also to those assigned to guard duty and to the […] public officials to make every search for them, and to bring anyone who finds them before me. […] Thoth 4 […] Artemidoros, aged 26 Isidoros, aged 22; Martilla, aged 38 Syros, assistant, through Herakleos son of the subscriber […] his. I have posted it publicly and have registered it.

The Oasis of the Seven Nomes is the administrative name of the Small Oasis (Bahariya). Several middle lines are badly damaged and their sense 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 Notice of Runaway Slaves). 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 · 1. Sept. 150 · Oasis Parva

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