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Report of the theft of two calves from an estate near Sennis TM 21218Oxyrhynchites5. Juli 190

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Report of a cattle theft addressed to the strategos Claudius Ischyrion alias Artemidoros by Dioskourides, gymnasiarch of Oxyrhynchus and agent of the former hypomnematographos Claudius Severus. Thieves broke through the courtyard wall of Severus' farmstead near Sennis and drove off two full-grown calves. The end of a preceding document dated 5 July 190 survives above it.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] ... [...] the animals should be with him, ... [...] ... [...], and that he himself should submit to the appropriate account. Year 30 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, Epeiph 11. To Claudius Ischyrion alias Artemidoros, strategos, from Dioskourides son of Zoilos, of the Hadrianic tribe and Olympian deme (?), [...]neikos, gymnasiarch in office of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, agent of Claudius Severus alias Diodoros, former hypomnematographos, procurator of the Emperor. In the night before the ninth of the present month Epeiph, some criminals came upon an estate of his excellency Claudius Severus near Sennis, and having demolished the wall of the courtyard of the farmstead, they also drove off two full-grown calves.

The hypomnematographos was a high official in Alexandria; 'kratistos' (his excellency) marks Severus' equestrian rank. The opening lines belong to an earlier, mostly lost text on the same sheet.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeige eines Viehdiebstahls). 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 · 5. Juli 190 · Oxyrhynchites

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