order for arrest
This text is an order for arrest of two individuals, Marcus, surnamed Mallus, and Eutyches.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26779
Order to the police chief of Taampemou to send up two men TM 26779Taampemou, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
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A short official order to the chief of police (archephodos) of the village of Taampemou in the Oxyrhynchite nome, instructing him to send Marcus, also called Mallus, and Eutyches under guard. The summons follows a complaint lodged by Sarapion. It dates to the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
To the chief of police of Taampemou. Send up Marcus, also called Mallus, and Eutyches, under guard, on the petition of Sarapion.
The archephodos was a village police chief. Such summonses were typically issued by an official after a petition, here by Sarapion.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vorführbefehl). 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.mich.mchl.5
ἀρχεφόδῳ Τααμπεμοῦ. πέμψον Μάρκον ἐπικαλούμενον Μάλλον καὶ Εὐτυχῆν διὰ φύλακος, ἐντυχόντος Σαραπίωνος.