One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27195
Order to arrest Apollonios son of Sarapion and others TM 27195From Oxyrhynchite nome?II/III CE ?
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A brief order to a village police chief to send up several named men, including Apollonios son of Sarapion, in response to a complaint lodged by a man whose father was Apollinarios. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD and probably comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
To the chief of police (archephodos) of […]. Send up Ammoni[…] and Apollonios son of Sarapion and […] son of […], his mother being Tnepher[…], on the petition of […] son of Apollinarios.
Such summonses, issued on the basis of a petition, ordered the village official to bring the accused before the authorities. The archephodos was a village police official with no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Arrest). 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.nyu.2.49
ἀρχεφόδῳ[…]· πέμψον Ἀμμωνι[…]καὶ Ἀπολλώνιον Σαραπίωνος καὶ[…]…ου μητρὸς Τνεφερ--τος, ἐντυχόντος[…]Ἀπολλιναρίου .