One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23627

End of a petition mentioning an untoward event TM 23627unbekannt27. März - 25. Apr. 187

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The end of a petition in which the petitioner, after mentioning some untoward event, formally submits the document and asks for action concerning a man. It is dated to Pharmouthi of year 27 of the emperor Commodus, that is spring AD 187.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] the B[…] […] something untoward concerning the […] [Therefore] I submit this petition and ask […] […] so that the […] concerning him […] […] for whatever is in accordance […] Year 27 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius [Commodus] Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus [Armeniacus Medicus] Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus [… Britannicus Maximus], Pharmouthi […]

Only the closing request and the imperial dating formula survive; the petitioner, the addressee and the nature of the complaint are lost. The word translated 'untoward' (apeuktaion) describes something one prays will not happen, often a death or serious harm.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). 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.congr.xv.18

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. März - 25. Apr. 187

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