Second draft of a petition by Ammon, a lawyer of Panopolis, concerning slaves that his brother left with him in Alexandria before travelling abroad. Ammon explains that he entrusted them to a certain Komon under a written agreement to return them when his brother came back, but Komon later evaded his friends' attempts to recover them. The draft dates to December 348.
In English machine translation
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[…] going abroad […] he left slaves with me here, as I was then [staying here, instructing me to] bring them [up to the Thebaid]. I then entrusted them […] to a certain Komon
[…] that he should keep them, until I should be about to sail upriver […]
[…] wishing to bring the children up, and since it seemed to her
[…] I did not wish to force her
[…] from me she might use […] here […] with the same Komon to take charge of the
[…] having received from him a written agreement, so that he would, when my brother returned,
[restore the] slaves [here]. For I was expecting him [to return] after five or six months
[…] always expecting his return and […] letters […] to sail down to the […]
[…] those of my friends who were sailing down here, so that to that Komon
[…] but he either could not be found or, when found by some, said that he would not [give them] to anyone else […]
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This is a second draft written on the back of another draft petition to the katholikos Flavius Sisinnius; the brother is the rhetor Harpokration, who died abroad. Many restorations depend on parallels with the companion draft.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein zweites Konzept auf dem Verso von 29). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.