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A petition from Aurelia Alexandra, daughter of a former eutheniarch and kosmetes of Alexandria, to two councillors serving as peacekeepers at Oxyrhynchus. She reports finding the entrance of her house broken into at dawn and goes on to list items, including four shawls and purple-dyed goods, apparently stolen.
The peacekeepers (eirenarchs) were local police officials chosen from the town council. A maphorion was a woman's shawl or head covering; the list of stolen goods breaks off.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Peacekeepers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρηλίοις Ἀσκληπιάδῃ καὶ […]βουλευταῖς ἐπὶ τῆς εἰρήνης […] παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀλεξάνδρας μητρὸς[…] τῆς καὶ Θεοδώρας θυγατρὸς[…]γενομένου εὐθηνιάρχου καὶ κοσμητοῦ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως Ἀλεξανδρέων. ὑπὸ τὸν ὄρθρον […] ἀπὸ κοίτης κοιμωμένη[…] καὶ γενομένη εἰς ἣν ἔχω ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Παμμένου…
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