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Official day-book of a strategos with hearing on sealed premises and a burglary TM 28753unbekannt2. Hälfte II (?)

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Fragment of an official day-book of a strategos recording proceedings: an exchange about sealed premises and public records, followed by entry 17, apparently a complaint of a burglary in which thieves broke in while the petitioner's wife slept and took everything, including 1000 drachmas, addressed in part to the chief of police.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] … […] … […] […] … […] […] … sealed (?) […] … […] […] … village (?) of public records […] […] and up to now you have not given it, clearly […] seek […] […] I found him (?). For even if on the same day […] […] by you, and having gone to the places, the […] of seals I made the places. The strategos: When […] […] year. The strategos: Remain […] of which the places were sealed […] return, you did not report, which was consistent (?) […] left behind, or it will be sought from you, and after […] as far as the temple called Komphoi and […] [margin] 17 near the sundial (?) of the so-called […] bath […] […] and to those with him in the allotted office of chief of police […] [from] Komphoi, and while my wife was sleeping in […] […] having […] through it, they entered and carried off everything […] […] 1000 drachmas, which I had received from the price […] […] from Justus […] and […] house […] […] […] […] […] that […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [Fragment A] […] strategos (?) […] […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] year […]

Archephodos was a village or district chief of police; Komphoi appears to be a place or temple name. The '17' in the margin likely numbers an entry in the day-book.

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

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p.koeln.5.230

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte II (?)

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