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Fragmentary petition or report from Antipatros to Komanos, a high Ptolemaic official with the court rank of chief bodyguard, from the Herakleopolite nome. It concerns an epistates, matters of guarding, and an act of outrage (hybris) committed by someone at or near the village of Elbontis, involving a chief of police.
Hybris was a legal term for insulting or violent assault on a person. Archisomatophylax ('chief bodyguard') is an honorary court rank of Ptolemaic officials.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an Komanos in Zusammenhang mit Hybris). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [fragment a] … Κομανῶι ἀρχισωματοφύλακι καὶ […] παρ’ Ἀντιπάτρου …[…] βουλόμενός σε παρ[…] λιδος τοῦ ἐπιστάτου […] α συντελουμεν[…] παρὰ πᾶν τὸ καλῶς ἔχον […] τῆι τηρήσει τ[…] καὶ τῆι τῶν γινομένων […] προῆγμαι ἕκαστα[…] ἵν’, ἐὰν φαίνηται, συντάξηις γράψαι […] μενων τὴν ελ[…] …
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