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Petition from Pokas son of Onos, an unpaid guard, to the strategos Noumenios, complaining that Pelaias, a pastophoros of the temple of Souchos at Krokodilonpolis, beat him with a stick and tore his linen garment during a dispute. He asks that the epistates Klearchos be told to send the accused before the strategos.
A pastophoros was a lower-ranking temple servant who carried shrines in processions. The incident occurred on the first epagomenal day, one of the five extra days at the end of the Egyptian year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Νούμηνι ἀρχισωματοφύλακι καὶ στρατηγῶι παρὰ Ποκᾶτος τοῦ Ὀνῶτος φυλακίτου ἀμίσθου. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πελαίου παστοφόρου τῶν ἐκ Κροκοδίλων πόλεως τοῦ Παθυρίτου Σούχου ἱερέως. τῇ γὰρ α τῶν ἐπαγομένων ἡμερῶν τοῦ ια ἔτους, ἀντιλογίαν πρός με συνστησάμενος περὶ τινῶν ἐν τῶι προγεγραμμένωι …
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