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Public physicians' report on the injuries of a farmer TM 22129Oxyrhynchos6. Mai 336
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A report by four public physicians of Oxyrhynchus to Flavius Julianus, acting syndikos, on their examination of Apis, a farmer of the former prytanis Aurelius Ptolemaios. They record scratches and small bruises on his neck, shoulder, elbow and eyelid, evidently injuries from an assault, in AD 336.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of Virius Nepotianus and Tettius Facundus, viri clarissimi.
To Flavius Julianus, administering the office of syndikos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from the Aurelii Theoninus and Heron and Didymus and Silvanus, public physicians of the same city.
We were instructed by your diligence, on the basis of a petition submitted by Aurelius Ptolemaios […], former prytanis of the city here, to examine his farmer, Apis by name, and to report in writing on his condition. Accordingly we examined him […] […] having on the right side of the neck scratches and […] […] of the shoulder-blade a small bruise […] and on the right elbow a scratch and on the lower right eyelid a small bruise, which we report.
In the aforesaid consulship, Pachon 11.
I, Aurelius Didymus, have submitted it.
I, Aurelius Heron, have submitted it.
The syndikos was a municipal advocate who handled complaints; such medical reports supported petitions about violence. One record cites the text under a different volume number of the same series.
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 Doctors). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.66.4528
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