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Petition of a Jewish purple-dealer to the nyktostrategos about a burglary TM 21134Hermopolis4. Juli 398

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Petition from Aurelius Annas son of Joses, a Jewish purple-dealer of Hermopolis, to the night-commander Aurelius Kyros, reporting that criminals broke into his storeroom near the temple of Tyche during the night. The text breaks off before the details of the theft. It dates to 4 July 398.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavius Caesarius and Atticus, the most illustrious. To Aurelius Kyros son of Philammon, councillor, in office as nyktostrategos of Hermopolis the most illustrious, from Aurelius Annas son of Joses, Jew, purple-dealer, from the same city. During the night leading into today, which is Epeiph 10, some criminals came upon our storeroom, where our goods are stored, which is near the Tychaion, and the […] […]

The nyktostrategos was a municipal official responsible for public order at night. The Tychaion was a shrine of Tyche, the city's Fortune; this text is a duplicate copy of the same petition.

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 Nyctostrategus). 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 · 4. Juli 398 · Hermopolis

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίου Καισαρίου καὶ Ἀττικοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων. Αὐρηλίῳ Κύρῳ Φιλάμμωνος πολιτευομένῳ ἐναρχῳ νυκτοστρατήγῳ Ἑρμουπόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἄνναν Ἰωσῆτος Ἰουδαίου πορφυροπώλου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. κατὰ τὴν νύκτα τὴν εἰς τὴν σήμερον ἡμέραν, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἐπ…