Opening of a petition from Aurelia Heliodora, daughter of Parammon, of the Small Oasis, to Aurelius Hermanoubis, acting epistrategos. She complains, as an elderly widow, of violence suffered at the hands of a man whose name begins Ammo- from the same oasis. It probably dates to about AD 241-244.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Hermanoubis, vir egregius, administering the epistrategia,
from Aurelia Heliodora, daughter of Parammon, […] from the Small Oasis. Suffering violence […] a widow and an old woman, at the hands of Ammo[…] of the same Small Oasis […]
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"Kratistos" (most excellent) renders the Latin rank title vir egregius. The epistrategos was a senior regional administrator above the nome officials; Hermanoubis held the post in an acting capacity.
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 an Acting Epistrategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.