Fragments of a petition (?) about an assault and an arrest TM 28317ArsinoitesII

Two small fragments of a 2nd-century AD document from the Arsinoite nome, catalogued as a petition. The surviving phrases mention someone being struck, a blow to the head, a night-time incident, someone being caught, a person said to be from the Oxyrhynchite nome, and the village of Dionysias.

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The direct address "you said" and the question-and-answer wording may point to a record of proceedings rather than a petition. Tanis may be a personal name or a place.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.