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Beginning of a petition from Flavius Ioannes of Oxyrhynchus to Flavius Athanasios, councillor and riparius (local police official), reporting that criminals attacked his machine (probably an irrigation wheel) by night a few days earlier. It is dated 7 November 449; the rest of the text is lost.
The riparius was a late Roman municipal official responsible for policing and public order. The Greek mechane usually means an irrigation machine (saqiya) in papyri of this period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione al riparius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας Φλαουίων Πρωτογένους καὶ Αὐστουρίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Ἁθὺρ ια Φλαουίῳ Ἀθανασίῳ τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ πολιτευομένῳ καὶ ῥιπαρίῳ τῆς Ὀξυρύγχου παρὰ Φλαουίου Ἰωάννου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. πρὸ ὀλίγων τούτων ἡμερῶν διὰ νυκτὸς κακοῦργοί τινες ἐπιστάντες τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ μηχανῇ[…]…μ[…]μην[…] [… ?…
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