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Petition of two brothers to the prefect about oppressive creditors TM 22490Oxyrhynchos364 - 366 (?)

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Petition from the brothers Aurelius Papnouthis and Aurelius Dorotheos of Oxyrhynchus to the prefect Flavius Flavianus. They borrowed money to pay their taxes to the treasury, suffered unexpected losses, and are being pressed by greedy creditors to the point of destitution and flight, so they ask the prefect for mercy and for the creditors to be made to act fairly. The verso names the creditors (?) Thonios son of Kopres, Dioskourides and Severus.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Flavius Flavianus, the most illustrious […] from the Aurelii Papnoutios and Dorotheos, both […] from the […] city of the Oxyrhynchites. All men, my lord prefect, [you …], but especially us, the humble (?) […] […] the pious taxes […] in order to pay them into the most sacred treasury we borrowed […] […] to pay this easily, but […] contrary to our expectations, having suffered loss […], and the creditors, the […] holding us […] demanded very many (?) […] until from the […] […] to such a point that we [are in want] even of necessities […] because of the greed of the creditors and […] […] to leave our homeland, being in distress […] to make this [petition] to you, for this reason compelled […] providing […] so that you may have pity on […] […] from Athanasios, the former magistrate […] […] to give to the city, of the fortune […] […] to show fairness to the creditors and […] […] to abide, and we shall be forever grateful to you […] I, Aurelius Papnouthis son of Aphynchis, have submitted it. I, Aurelius Dorotheos son of Aphynchis, have submitted it. [verso] We mean, namely, Thonios son of Kopres and Dioskourides and Severus

The right side of the papyrus is lost, so many sentences are incomplete. The names on the verso are probably those of the creditors complained of.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to Flavius Flavianus). 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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p.oxy.48.3394

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 364 - 366 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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