Order
Order to the archephodos of Bacchias to send up various accused persons
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Order to the archephodos of Bakchias to send up accused persons TM 28270�mm el'AtlThird century
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An order to the chief of police (archephodos) of the village of Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome to send up a group of named people, among them Dioskoros called Mastix and his children, who have been accused by someone whose name is lost. It dates to the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
To the chief of police of the village of Bakchias. Send up Nemesis son of Esouris, and Dioskoros called Mastix and his children Horion and Thermoutharion,
and Heimarsis, and Horion son of Apollonios called Kiales, and Krambys, and Ptolemaios […]
and Arios also called Toupias, son of Aaitis, and […]
who are accused by […]
immediately […]
The archephodos was a village police official. The records disagree on the date: 2nd century, 2nd-3rd century and 3rd century AD are all given.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Summons). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Order to arrest
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ἀρχεφόδῳ κώμης Βακχιάδος. ἀνάπεμψον Νέμεσιν υἱὸν Ἐσούρεως καὶ Διόσκορον ἐπικαλούμενον Μάστιγα καὶ τὰ τούτου τέκνα Ὡρίωνα καὶ Θερμουθᾶριον καὶ Εἴμαρσιν καὶ Ὡρίωνα Ἀπολλωνίου ἐπικαλούμενον Κιαλῆν καὶ Κράμβυν καὶ Πτολεμαῖον […] καὶ Ἄριον τὸν καὶ Τουπίαν Ἀαίτιος καὶ …[…] ἐγκαλουμένου…