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Physician's report on the injuries of a slave woman TM 21537Oxyrhynchos17. - 25. Apr. 96

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A medical report from the public physician Theon son of Harpaesis of Oxyrhynchus to the strategos Peisis. On the strategos' orders he examined Alexandra, a slave woman of Claudia Dionysia, and found a wounded finger, bleeding (or bruising) on the breast, vomiting and fever. Written at Oxyrhynchus in April AD 96.

In English machine translation

To Peisis, strategos, from Theon son of Harpaesis, physician, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus. On the 21st, a Sebaste day, of the present month Pharmouthi of the fifteenth year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, I was instructed by you, through Lochos son of Onnophris, assistant, to examine Alexandra, slave of Claudia Dionysia. Having examined her, then, in the presence of the assistant, I found on the middle finger a wound, which I am also treating, and an effusion of blood on the breast, and that she was vomiting and feverish. Therefore I make this report. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, Pharmouthi […]

Such reports by public physicians usually supported a complaint of assault. A 'Sebaste day' was a day named in honour of the emperor.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Public Physician). 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 · 17. - 25. Apr. 96 · Oxyrhynchos

Πείσιδι στρατηγῷ παρὰ Θέωνος τοῦ Ἁρπαήσιος ἰατροῦ τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. τῇ μιᾷ καὶ εἰκάδι Σεβαστῇ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι τοῦ πεντεκαιδεκάτου ἔτους Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ ἐπετράπη μοι ὑπό σου διὰ Λόχου τοῦ Ὀννώφριος ὑπηρέτου ἐπιδεῖν Ἀλεξάνδρ…