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Order to arrest a former nomikarios and his mother at Pakerke TM 30216Oxyrhynchosspätes III - frühes IV

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An order from the prytanis (president of the city council) of Oxyrhynchus to the village heads and public officials of Pakerke, telling them to hand over a former legal clerk and his mother Besous to a police officer. The arrest follows a petition by a woman named Isidora.

In English machine translation

From the prytanis To the komarchs and public officials of the village of Pakerke. Immediately hand over to the nomophylax who has been sent […]eios, the former nomikarios, and his mother Besous, on the petition of Isidora.

A nomophylax was a local police official, and a nomikarios a legal clerk or notary; the wanted man's name is only partly preserved.

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.oxy.44.3190

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes III - frühes IV · Oxyrhynchos

παρὰ τοῦ πρυτάνεως κωμάρχαις καὶ δημοσίοις κώμης Πακέρκη. ἐξαυτῆς παράδοτε τῷ ἀποσταλέντι νομοφύλακι …[…]ειον τὸν ποτὲ νομικάριον καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ Βησοῦν, ἐντυχούσης Ἰσιδώρας.