Petition for medical inspection after assault and robbery TM 23568unbekannt

A fragmentary petition from a man who was beaten, struck on the ribs and stripped of his clothing by an assailant and his companions. He asks the official to send an assistant with the public physician to inspect his injuries and report, so that he can later pursue justice. It is dated to the month Phaophi of year 5 of an emperor named Marcus Aurelius.

In English machine translation

The emperor's name is incomplete; the epithets Pius Felix point to a third-century ruler such as Caracalla, Elagabalus or Severus Alexander. The request for a public physician's inspection is a standard feature of assault petitions in Roman Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Querela per lesioni personali e rapina). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.