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A private letter from Horion to Heraklios at Oxyrhynchus, asking him to have a sealed warrant issued against the village officials of Enteeis (the field-guard, the peace officers and the police chief) after a machine of Horion's was stolen in the field, so that Horion can bring them before the authorities on the 10th. He complains that these officials disrespect his household and mentions sending grain by a donkey-driver.
The machine (mechane) is probably an irrigation device such as a water-wheel. The diplomation is a small sealed summons or warrant, here apparently obtained through the gymnasiarch Sarapion.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Horion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ὡρίων Ἡρακλίῳ τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. διπλωμάτιον σφραγισάτω μοι ἐπὶ τοὺς δημοσίους τῆς Ἐντείεως ἐπεὶ ἐκλάπη μηχανὴ ἡμῶν ἐν ἀγρῷ τὸν πεδιοφύλακα καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς εἰρήνης καὶ τὸν ἀρχέφοδον ἐντυχόντος Σαραπίωνος γυμνασιάρχου ἵνα ἀνενέγκω αὐτοὺς τῇ ι δεκάτῃ ἐμου ἀνερχομένου· μελησάτω σ…
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