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Beginning of a petition from Aurelius Annas son of Joses, a Jewish purple-seller of Hermopolis, to the city's night commander Aurelius Kyros. It starts to describe something that happened during the previous night, but breaks off. Written at Hermopolis in AD 398.
This is a duplicate copy of the petition; the complaint itself is lost. The nyktostrategos was a municipal officer responsible for public order at night.
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.
μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίου Καισαρίου καὶ Ἀττικοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων. Αὐρηλίῳ Κύρῳ Φιλάμμωνος πολιτευομένῳ ἐνάρχῳ νυκτοστρατήγῳ Ἑρμουπόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἄνναν Ἰωσῆτος Ἰουδαίου πορφυροπώλου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν νύκτα τὴν εἰς τὴν σήμερον ἡμέραν, ἥτις ἐσ…
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